Scott Galloway: ‘It Just Seems Mathematically Improbable that [Trump] Won’t Be Sentenced to Prison at Some Point’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Amanpour: “You have predicted that Biden will be re-elected and Trump will go to jail in 2024. How sure can you be? Why are you saying that?’

GALLOWAY: “I don’t think you can be sure. If you look at the jurisdictions he’s been charged in, they have between a 70% and 92% conviction rate and only a third of people who receive the indictments or the charges that that he’s received don’t end up with prison time. Even if you discount the statistics or cut them in half because it is a different situation, it just seems mathematically improbable that he won’t be sentenced to prison at some point. It’s become a game show, and that is it’s become a bit of a game show, and that is his objective is to slow down the trials until after. If you look at statistically the likelihood that one of these 93 charges will stick, it just feels mathematically likely something is going to stick here.”

Amanpour: “They say 91, but nonetheless — you think these trials, at least one of them, will come to fruition and, you know, sentencing before the election.”

GALLOWAY: “I think we’ll find out in the next couple of months. Yeah.”

Amanpour: “The American people have said basically that even though he’s the frontrunner right now for the Republican nomination and in some places ahead of Biden in polls which are far out, that they wouldn’t vote for a convicted criminal essentially. What do you think about the polls? Where do you think people are headed if he does get convicted?”

GALLOWAY: “Well, the poll I’ve read is that 7% of his existing voters would say they wouldn’t want to vote for someone who had been convicted. And your first reaction is—“