Fox’s Andy McCarthy: Stormy Daniels Testimony Is ‘Humiliating’ For Trump But ‘Has Nothing to Do With the Case’
Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy dismissed the significance of the upcoming testimony of adult film star Stormy Daniels in the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump — but he did concede that it would be “humiliating” for the ex-president turned criminal defendant.
McCarthy told Fox News anchors Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer on Tuesday that Daniels’ claim of the affair that Trump allegedly paid his former lawyer Michael Cohen to cover up “really doesn’t matter whether it’s true or false.”
The alleged action of falsifying business records — by classifying them as legal expenses — in order to hide a potentially damaging extramarital affair with Daniels during Trump’s first run for president is at the heart of the entire case. Trump has denied the affair and pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Here was McCarthy’s analysis:
She adds nothing substantively. She’s a humiliating witness for Trump, clearly. But everything important, if there is anything important about this absurd case, has little to do with her. She has nothing to do with the reimbursement of Michael Cohen by Trump or the way that was booked in the business records. And as far as her allegation’s concerned, in terms of the case, it really doesn’t matter whether it’s true or false.
Now, I think from the jury’s perspective, it might matter. It if it looks to the jury like she’s telling a credible story and Trump is denying it in a way that’s not credible, that could influence them one way or the other. But in terms of, like, what’s important to be proved in the case, there’s no doubt that there was an allegation that she had an affair with Trump in 2006. There’s no doubt that there was a nondisclosure arrangement, that it was negotiated between Michael Cohen and Keith Davidson, who is her, Stormy Daniels’ attorney. That the payment was made in late October of 2016, after the Access Hollywood tape came out in early October, it gave her a lot more leverage. So there’s no doubt that they paid her. She is not an essential witness in terms of proving anything that the government has to prove in this case.
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