Donald Trump Jr. explained why a delay in a New York hush money trial was terrible news for his father and will likely "make sure [Donald] Trump doesn't get off."
During a Monday appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, Donald Trump Jr. began by noting that Justice Juan Merchan had announced the trial's closing arguments would begin next week instead of by the end of this week.
"I think the whole thing's crazy," he said. "They're going to delay the thing for a week. I was about to literally go to the airport to fly up to New York to be in court tomorrow, thinking that tomorrow was going to be closing arguments."
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"Now they want to delay it a week. And that's the purpose," he continued. "They understand that Donald Trump on the campaign trail is a positive thing for conservatism, for Donald Trump, and a really bad thing for Joe Biden."
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The former president's son complained that Stormy Daniels' testimony was unnecessary and "was clearly just designed to hold Trump up and to try to embarrass him."
"The whole thing is a sham," Donald Trump Jr. opined. "The whole thing is ridiculous."
He also suggested the delay in the trial's closing was a plot to influence the jury.
"Again, they're hoping that in a New York court with a stacked jury, a biased judge, and a long holiday weekend where I'm sure the media will be hounding them and putting pressure on them to make sure that Trump doesn't get off as he should, that's what's going on right now, and that's what it's designed to do," he said.
The trial delay also gives Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, less time to prepare for his June 27 debate with President Joe Biden.
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