Fox Host Points Out Insanity of Trump’s Bank Fraud Trial ‘Jury’ Claim

Despite Donald Trump’s courthouse complaint Monday that his bank fraud trial in New York is being decided by a judge rather than a jury, it was the former president’s own lawyers who agreed to such an arrangement, Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov pointed out on The Five.

Trump, who voluntarily attended Monday’s proceedings, griped to the press afterwards that it is “very unfair that I don’t have a jury.” Judge Arthur Engoron ruled last week that Trump, his top executives, and his heirs were liable for “persistent and repeated fraud,” and he will now decide on the financial penalties.

Of the bench trial, Tarlov said, “it also seems that [Trump] doesn’t—and this has happened to him before—have a top-notch legal team with him.”

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