CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins criticized former President Trump during the opening of her show Friday for an allegation that the judge Juan Merchanwho is presiding over his trial for concealing money, is preventing him from bringing an election expert to testify.
“In one post tonight he is complaining that the judge prevented him from having an election expert testify,” Collins said during Friday’s edition of his show “The Source with Kaitlan Collins.”
“But that’s not true,” she said. “We were there! We watched this argument that took place inside the courtroom. Trump’s lawyers, in the end, chose not to call this election expert because the judge refused to broaden the scope of what he could testify. He was concerned that this would become, as the judge said, a battle of experts.”
The presumptive Republican Party nominee has been steadily publishing posts on TruthSocial going after Merchan, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and others as the defense rested its case Tuesday in the secretive Manhattan trial, where Trump faces 34 criminal charges. Closing arguments in the criminal case are scheduled after Memorial Day weekend, after which the jury will begin deliberating.
“He is denying me the opportunity to appoint a highly respected election law expert who will say, once again, there was NO CRIME,” Trump said. he said in a Friday post on TruthSocial. “This judge, whose conflicts are completely disqualifying, does not even demand a unanimous jury decision on important parts of this criminal farce, which is UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UN-AMERICAN.”
During his Friday comments, Collins said “history” could be made by the end of next week, considering the group of 12 people juryelected in mid-April, will decide whether the former president is guilty.
“Tonight we truly are on the cusp of history, because this time next week we may finally know whether or not Donald Trump will be a convicted criminal, or whether a jury of his peers here in Manhattan will find him innocent.
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