Jonathan Turley Says Democrats Are Dehumanizing Trump: They ‘No Longer View This as a Human Being’

Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley struck a somber note on Friday as he discussed Donald Trump’s guilty verdict and the reaction to it.

The former president was found guilty on Thursday of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. It was the first time in U.S. history that an ex-president was criminally convicted.

“You got the feeling in there that history was being made, but we don’t know what history,” said Turley, who was sitting outside Trump Tower and described seeing people celebrate the guilty verdict on the streets of New York. “Obviously, we have the conviction of a president. And that is history that we should all feel saddened by, regardless of how you feel about Trump. There is a dehumanizing aspect – that people on the other side no longer view this as a human being. And you saw that when I walked out of that courthouse and saw the celebration in the street.”