Turley Says Trump Trial Judge ‘May Have Already Committed Reversible Error’
Charlie Kirk Staff
05/01/2024

Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley believes that Judge Juan Merchan, who is in charge of the case involving former President Donald Trump and alleged hush money payments made to adult movie star Stormy Daniels, made a massive mistake.
“I got to tell you, I think this judge may have already committed reversible error,” the legal analyst said to “Fox and Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt.
“He could try to amend it, he could try to change it in his instructions, but that jury has now been told repeatedly that there are federal election crimes here, strongly suggesting that the payment to Stormy Daniels did violate federal election laws. That’s just not true,” he said.
His comments came after the New York Court of Appeals decided on Thursday that “erroneously admitted” testimony about unrelated incidents by the in the New York rape case against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein were “egregious errors” and that a new trial was required.
The legal analyst went on to talk about the pending testimony of convicted liar and former attorney for former President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen.
“Michael Cohen is literally going to tell that jury, ‘Please send my client to jail for following my legal advice,’” the legal analyst said. “All of the stuff that they are talking about, he set up, he structured this and told his client that, ‘we could do this.’”
“It’s a bizarre moment,” he said.
When he appeared on Fox News last week he highlighted how paper thin the case against the former president is.
“You had this misdemeanor under state law that had run out. This is related, going back to the 2016 election, and they zapped it back into life by alleging there was a campaign finance violation under the federal laws that doesn’t exist,” he said. “On top of that, you’ve got these tough factual issues that were laid out well by the Trump team, saying someone else designated this as a legal expense,” a reference to the FEC findings.