Posted on 04/19/2024 3:57:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Stephen A. Smith criticized the hush money trial against former President Trump in Thursday comments, saying he wants to see him “lose the right way.”
As primarily Democratic voter, the sports commentator said he is “utterly disgusted” with Trump’s criminal trial, which kicked off Monday with jury selection. Smith said he sees it as Democrats attempting to politicize the courts as they’re unable to stop the former president’s momentum in the polls.
“That appears to be their strategy, but I’m going to tell you, it’s not working. It’s not working at all,” Smith told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday. “And to be quite honest, I don’t mind the fact that it’s not working because I might not be a supporter of Donald Trump, but I want him to lose the right way.”
“I want him to lose because you have better ideas and you make your case to the American people better than he does. That’s why I want him to lose,” he continued, citing President Biden. “I don’t want him to lose the way they’re trying to make him lose.”
Trump made history as the first U.S. president to face a criminal trial when his trial began in Manhattan this week.
The case alleges that Trump illegally falsified business records when reimbursing his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for paying adult film actor Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged affair ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Including this case and others, the former president faces 88 criminal charges across four indictments. It remains unclear if any of his other cases will reach a jury before the November election, where he is the presumptive GOP nominee.
Smith argued that Democrats who pushed for Trump’s trial to begin before the election, which it did Monday despite his attempts to delay, are just showing they’re scared Biden can’t beat Trump in the polls.
According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, Trump currently leads Biden by .08 percent in national polling. A survey from mid-March found that 44 percent of respondents said their vote would not be changed even if Trump is convicted in the hush money trial.
Personally, I’d rather see Donald Trump win both in court and at the ballot box this fall.
Don’t lie. Yours is the party of swindlers, liars and cheaters. Your side doesn’t want the truth.
This guy is an idiot
What does he disagree with Trump on? I don’t care if he likes Trump or not, what does he disagree with?
Stephen A. Smith is a multimillionaire, and yet he still promotes and talks about black victimhood. Some people will never learn.
and yet gets the shenanigans.
it’s encouraging, leaving only the dimmest wits not getting it.
About everything. He will vote Dem regardless.
Who is Steven Smith?
He will vote Biden
This reads like he may not, but he doesn’t want to say it publicly.
2 STATES already cannot have Biden ON the ballot-—
OHIO——ALABAMA-—
The Convention is being held too late for the ballot deadlines.
“...saying he wants to see him “lose the right way.”
I want to see Smith lose the “hard” way.
“Stephen A. Smith is a multimillionaire, and yet he still promotes and talks about black victimhood.”
That’s how the poverty pimp got rich.
“What does he disagree with Trump on?”
Too stupid to figure that out.
Never heard of it.
That would mean the Cowboys winning the Super Bowl.
Stephen A. Smith Slams Trump Hush Money Trial: ‘I Want Him to Lose the Right Way’
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How ironic! I’d like to see Stephen A. Smith veer off a bridge “the Right Way”.
I’m not a fan either.
Steven A is a pseudo-intellectual blowhard who mostly argues about sports. All that said, I’m glad he’s made these statements about (D)s wanting to go full Tonya Harding on Trump’s kneecaps so he can’t just skate to the win in November.
The man does have a following and his recent remarks might sway some of his audience in the right direction.
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