“You think pardoning is stupid? Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid,” Phillips wrote on X.
rep gave a laundry list of Trump’s crimes and then immediately called for leniency from the New York governor.
“Donald Trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy, an instigator of insurrection, and a convicted felon who thrives on portraying himself as a victim,” Phillips wrote scathingly.“You think pardoning is stupid?” Phillips wrote. “Making him a martyr over a payment to a porn star is stupid. ”could’ve influenced the outcome of the 2016 election.
Trump’s campaign announced on Friday that it had raised nearly $53 million in the hours after the verdict and has readily attacked the trial as “rigged,” a false claim Trump repeated in his It’s unclear why Phillips decided that now was the appropriate time to re-enter the political fray, since he’s kept a low profile since dropping out of the presidential race in March. And Hochul, for her part, is unlikely to heed his advice anyway.
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