CNN host Jake Tapper brutally fact checked Donald Trump’s potential running mate, Gov. Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) after he insisted that the former president’s ongoing criminal hush money trial in New York is based on a “filing error.”
In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Burgum claims that the cases against Trump are politically motivated and it would be a “travesty of justice” if the former president is convicted.
“Everybody sees this is politically motivated,” Burgum said. “A filing error is not something that would affect the American people that are trying to put food on the table and gas in the car, it doesn’t affect them. And, so, it this is why the outcome of this trial is not going to change a lot of people’s minds. It might actually, in some ways help President Trump because it reinforces the idea that the Biden administration is willing to use lawfare to try to attack a political opponent.”
“There’s no evidence that Joe Biden has anything to do with this case brought forward by District Attorney Bragg and you keep describing it as a filing error. I guess that’s one interpretation,” Tapper responded.
He continued: “Another interpretation is that Donald Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, paid hush money to hide from the American people before the election the fact that Mr. Trump had a rendezvous with a porn star, and that they wanted to hide that from the American people until after the election. So far the evidence and I’ve seen suggests was, at least, was some political motivation to this and they hid it so as to hide that from the public. That’s a little bit more than just checking the wrong box on a form.”
Trump faces 34 criminal counts of allegedly falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election campaign. Prosecutors argue that the payment was part of a conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election.
