Trump attorney Todd Blanche said on Friday that former President Donald Trump’s legal team was even more upset than he was about just how unfair the trial in Manhattan was following its conclusion.
The verdict was the culmination of a weeks-long courtroom battle in which Trump said that he was the target of a “political persecution” — a point that was seemingly validated when President Joe Biden sent his re-campaign to hold a political event outside the courthouse this week. The former president was found guilty on all 34 charges brought in the hush-money trial.
“We have been saying for over a year that we couldn’t get a fair trial in Manhattan, we couldn’t get a fair trial with the judge,” Blanche told Fox News. “And it played out in lots of ways exactly as we expected.”
“I think that there were a lot of decisions that [the judge] made leading up to the trial…
