'Happens in mob cases': CNN's Abby Phillip shuts down Dr. Phil complaints on Trump trial

Dr. Phil McGraw believes former President Donald Trump received a raw deal in his hush money conviction.

The television star sat down with the 45th president to discuss a range of topics and then appeared on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip to discuss it.

But gnawing at him was one constant: that as a defendant Trump didn't get a fair shake at his New York trial.

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"I'm sympathetic to what Trump has gone through in this particular trial because I think it was not proper due process for him," he said. "I would say the same thing a bit was [President Joe] Biden or anyone else in that process."

Trump wasfound guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records when he was found to have cooked up scheme to have Cohen buy the silence of adult film star Stormy Daniels to manipulate the outcome of his candidacy for the White House.

Trump signaled he will appeal after he's sentenced on July 11.

Asked to explain himself more Dr. Phil attempted to make his case.

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Chief among his misgivings was the fact that Michael Cohen, who served as Trump's bagman when he delivered sums of money to Daniels, should have been barred from testifying.

Because of Cohen, McGraw said, the jury "heard some things that were very prejudicial, that had nothing to do with solving the problem of the case at hand."

He continued: "I think you don't have someone that is considered to be an accomplice in a crime that has pled out or made a non-prosecution agreement and allow that information into the jury's awareness because it's very prejudicial and is not really probative of anything that they're asked to be problem-solving."

Cohen is a convicted criminal who was sentenced to three years in federal prison for tax evasion, perjury, and campaign finance violations.

But Phillip noted that Cohen wasn't charged with the same crimes as Trump.

Moreover, she explained that it's not "uncommon at all for people who are accomplices to crimes, people who have taken plea deals, non-prosecution — that is not uncommon at all for for those people to then testify in subsequent trials for their alleged co-conspirators" as Cohen did as a prosecution witness against Trump.

"That's kind of how a lot of these prosecutions work," she said.

McGraw responded: "Well, really give me examples of where that has been considered appropriate,"

And Phillip made it clear that organized crime cases routinely lean on co-conspirators at trial to help buttress their cases.

She explained: "It happens in mob cases all the time."

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