After New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan told former President Trump he would face arrest if he did not attend daily court sessions in his hush money trial, Fox Nation host Piers Morgan said that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee should attend his son Barron's graduation and defy The Judge's Warning.
“Donald Trump should go to his son's graduation…go to graduation. Honestly, if you're watching, President Trump, just go to graduation. Every parent in America, whether they like you or hate you, they'll say, 'Yeah.' “I would have done that too,'” Morgan said Monday on “The Five.”
Barron Trump will graduate later this month from Oxbridge Academy in Palm Beach, Florida, while his father is scheduled to appear before Merchan in a New York court 1,200 miles away.
Morgan, who notably interviewed Trump for Fox Nation in a sometimes tense exchange in 2022, called the case one of “the most petty and self-destructive acts of political suicide I have ever witnessed.”
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Trump, Judge Merchan (Angela Weiss/AFP via AP, POOL/AP)
The “Piers Morgan: Uncensored” host also called Merchan's case, brought by New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg, “absolutely ridiculous.”
Judge Jeanine Pirro, who was a judge in neighboring Westchester County and was its Republican prosecutor for many years, said Merchan can issue an arrest warrant for Trump, but left open whether, as Morgan suggested, it would be politically advantageous. .
Morgan went on to call the idea that a former president would be hauled into court with a possible 10-year felony sentence for “potentially a one-night stand with a porn star” completely absurd.
Chelsea and Bill Clinton watch the 2016 St. Louis debate, where Donald Trump also invited several of the former president's accusers. (REUTERS/Jim Bourg)
“Have you lost your mind, America? What a degrading way to treat a former president. Secondly, if you're left-wing, why would you think this could work? Why wouldn't you think that what you're doing here ?” “Will this almost guarantee that Donald Trump wins the next election?” he asked.
For his part, Trump said Merchan's decision not to attend Barron's graduation or Supreme Court arguments in another case he is involved in are collectively a “perfect” ploy to help “left-wing Democrats.” radical”.
“That's exactly what they want. This is election interference, that's all,” he said in remarks after his day in Manhattan court.
Fox News host Jesse Watters added that former President Bill Clinton also made headlines for his 1998 legal settlement with former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones, but did not receive the same scrutiny as Trump.
Jones was paid $850,000 for her 1991 claim that Clinton, then the state's governor, harassed her inside a Little Rock hotel. Jones, one of several Clinton accusers whom Trump invited as guests to a debate in Missouri against the Democrat's wife, Hillary, during the 2016 race, claimed that Clinton exposed herself and made sexual advances.
At the time of the settlement, Clinton's attorney, Robert Bennett, said Jones' claim was meritless.
Clinton White House press secretary Michael McCurry said at the time that Clinton was “pleased to have received the vindication she had long awaited.”
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“This is a personal expense,” Watters said of Trump's payment to maintain silence about “The Five,” and then cited the Jones case.
“[Clinton] “I used private money because it was a private matter,” he said, suggesting Trump did the same.
“This is the most corrupt prosecution… And the jury is 90% Democrat. And the star witness is a cold-blooded criminal and a liar,” he said, referring to Trump's former “fixer” Michael Cohen.
“[T]The jury pool is basically like the DO. [Simpson] jury pool. “There will be people trying to mess with that jury and send a message, just like they did with 'The Juice.'”
Watters seemed to agree with Morgan's sentiment about the possible threat of arrest for Trump.
“If this judge says he can't attend Barron's high school graduation, [Trump] “He wins in a landslide,” he said. “He will win in California if that happens.”
