Sara Murray on Hush Money Trial: ‘Acquitted Is the Worst Case Scenario for Democrats’

RAJU: “Maybe they’ll help Trump.”
MURRAY: “I mean, he has succeeded. Look, I think that it’s very likely this is the only trial that we are going to get before Election Day. And this case is not a slam dunk, which means that Donald Trump may very well not be convicted. Acquitted is the worst-case scenario for Democrats, because then its the only trial you have and Donald Trump gets to go out there and say, ‘Joe Biden’s prosecutors,’ which, again, not true, ‘came after me, his Department of Justice came after me, and they still didn’t convict me. I’m still innocent.’ I also think you could end up somewhere in this sort of muddy middle where you end up with a hung jury, a jury that cannot reach a verdict. And then this truly does just get kicked to the voters to decide. Look, we’re not going to have any kind of convictions here or nothing else could potentially go to trial. It’s up to you to decide if this is someone that you want to live with in the White House.”
RAJU: “And how does Biden handle the ultimate outcome? Politico had some reporting about this just a couple of days ago, saying that Biden attends to address this if there is a verdict, according to people that they spoke to. If the jury convicts Trump, Biden’s team will argue the results show Trump is ill-suited for office and that the extremes that he would go to try to win again, they also say that they would prepare for a barrage of attacks from the GOP if he is acquitted. What are you hearing from your sources about how he plans to address this?”
PARKER: “So what I hear, that — that lines up, from what I’m hearing from my sources as well.”