Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have mounted yet another appeal seeking to postpone the former president’s criminal trial in New York, where he faces 34 felony counts related to an alleged hush money scheme to bury stories ahead of the 2016 election.
Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly dropped a bombshell during a NewsNation interview on the Trump trial.
The appeals won’t work, Kelly revealed — and Trump will almost certainly be convicted.
According to reports, Trump’s latest legal filing challenges a New York judge’s refusal to consider arguments that he should be shielded from prosecution under the doctrine of “presidential immunity” protecting his actions while in office.
The sealed two-page appeal, reportedly viewed by CNN before being docketed, also disputes the judge’s denial of Trump’s bid to recuse himself over claims of bias.
While the filing does not explicitly request an emergency delay, it asks the appeals court to schedule a hearing on May 6th – roughly three weeks into the trial’s anticipated timeline should it proceed as scheduled with jury selection beginning April 15th.
The move represents Trump’s legal team’s persisting efforts to postpone the prosecution despite a string of recent court rejections. Just this week, New York’s appellate courts rebuffed two of Trump’s attempted last-ditch moves – one seeking to relocate the trial outside of Manhattan — an area dominated by Democratic voters — and another challenging a gag order limiting his public commentary.
Trump’s attorneys had previously pressed the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, to indefinitely adjourn the criminal case while awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether former presidents are constitutionally immune from prosecution related to actions taken in office.
That high court case is not scheduled for arguments until April 25th with a final decision expected weeks later.
Amid the torrent of appeals, Merchan has repeatedly rejected Trump’s attempts to indefinitely delay the trial as “untimely” stall tactics despite the ex-president having “myriad opportunities” to mount substantive immunity defenses much earlier.
As the legal wrangling risks seeping into the trial itself, Trump’s ability to overcome the judicial setbacks and secure any further postponements appears increasingly improbable.
Kelly predicted that Trump’s latest appeal would fail again — and Trump would be quickly convicted at his criminal trial “pretty easily.”
“Oh, he’s getting convicted. I don’t really think there’s a lot of mystery about that,” Kelly said. “He shouldn’t, but he’s going to get convicted. The jury’s going to hate him. Manhattan went 92%, between 87 and 92% for Joe Biden. That’s where this is going to be tried. These are not Trump lovers.”
“You don’t actually believe Trump didn’t have an affair with Stormy Daniels as he says, right?” asked Abrams.
“No, I believe there was an interlude. I don’t know, ‘affair’ may be too strong,” Kelly responded. “Look, I think the jury’s going to believe that he paid off a porn star before the election to make her go away and that he didn’t write down in his books.”
“Because no one in the history of hush money payments has ever written that in any book anywhere. It defeats the whole purpose of a hush money payment,” she said.
“So I grant you, yeah, they’re probably going to convict him. They’re going to convict him pretty easily, I think,” Kelly concluded.
With jury selection imminent, Trump now confronts the reality of being the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges — and potentially jail time.
The Horn News editorial team