Trump ‘petrified’ of prison as he loses 10th bid to delay hush money trial

good evening from New York I'm Chris Hayes and we are a week away from the first criminal

trial

of a former president in the history of the United States and Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to prevent this from happening today he lost before a New York Court of appeals after he tried to argue that his

hush

money

election interference case should be

delay

ed pending his appeal of his gag order in the same case which is a gag order that was issued by the judge because Trump can't stop make threatening and inflammatory statements about the people involved.

In his legal cases, including in this case the judge's own daughter, Trump also lost a separate appeal to

delay

the case yesterday, a different judge in New York refused to postpone the case while Trump tries to move it out of Manhattan to a jurisdiction more favorable this It all comes after he lost another appeal for delay last week, which was partially related to his claims for presidential immunity. Of course, the payments in question occurred before he was president or were at least agreed upon before he was president. He bribed an adult film actress to cover up an extramarital affair they had while his wife was home taking care of their four-month-old son and this is what Donald Trump is incredibly litigious, he has spent his entire career in and out of court In fact the only thing I seem to enjoy more than suing people is threatening to sue people all the women lied when they showed up to hurt my campaign a total lie the events never happened never all these liars will be sued after they're done elections, but I have never seen anyone who lied As much as Ted Cruz, he doesn't even have the right to serve as president or run for president, he was born in Canada, so I will file that lawsuit if he doesn't apologize, they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in lies. commercials and it's a shame so what we're going to do I guess we're going to sue them, let's sue them okay, let's sue them can you go four years without threatening to sue anyone?

It's also a tactic for me, it's a business for me and I've had success and, you know, I've used litigation and sometimes I use it maybe when I shouldn't and sometimes I don't in the past. I think it's fair to say that the former president was not afraid of a protracted legal battle that he seemed to be having. enjoy them and if you ask him and the people around him, they all insist right now that he is eager to fight in this New York case and he took a typical Donald Trump stance where he is ready to be combative on something that He believes it is an injustice.

His knees don't bend in Savannah, so I think now he's in the stance that he's ready to fight. This is a total war. A total war. Donald Trump is the toughest human being. Have I ever met him, sorry, here's the thing, if you really look at Donald Trump's actions, he's not standing at the courthouse door saying Bring It On, he's clearly desperate to avoid going to

trial

, I mean, really There's a very good reason why he's trying so desperately to get out of this trial, which is that the government has a very good case against him and the reason we know that the government has a very good case.

It is because the problem The facts of the charges at hand have already resulted in someone going to jail. Michael Con was the middleman who carried out the plan to structure these same payments to Stormy Daniels' prosecutors under the Trump administration. Trump's justice department said it was illegal and illegal. it benefited the Trump campaign in some ways, it benefited the Trump campaign specifically because the payments came right after the news of the Access Hollywood tape broke and if you remember, Trump was the weakest he had ever been like candidate, one more scandal like, for example, a secret affair with a porn. star while his wife cared for his four-month-old newborn would most likely have ended his campaign, one of the great counterfactuals in American history, so what happened?

Trump made Michael interfere in the election by paying the stormy DS to keep quiet. He pleaded guilty to those charges and others, and he went to

prison

for more than a year before being confined to his home again during the copandemic. I covered him for a while, there's been a lot of stuff legal or otherwise, you know, deep down, he's just a scared 77 year old old man, you know, the toughest guy I've ever met, even though he's also someone who has watched a lot of people in his orbit go to actual

prison

or jail as if they really did Michael with Paul manord Alan weiselberg has an accountant he worked with for decades Peter Naro George papadopolis Rick Gates Trump doesn't want to join those ranks just ask Michael with what could at the end of that line potentially, legally presumed innocent, could end up in prison due to his long years of service with him, how will he process that very badly? um, you know, as I like to call it sometimes in my tweet diaper, Donald will fill that diaper because he, this is not something that Donald is capable of understanding or dealing with.

He, as you accurately said, believes that he could control every situation. I will feel genuine fear, yes, I think at this point he is beyond

petrified

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