'He lied about his sex life': Nicolle Wallace says truth will be exposed at Trump trial
March 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump faces a brand new challenge in the current string of legal cases against him, said MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Monday: the truth.
Wallace pointed to the civil property valuation fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James and the upcoming criminal hush money case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The MSNBC anchor argued these cases shatter the very identity Trump has built for himself on the public stage.
"This is the big lie about who he is, who he was," Wallace said. "The notion that he lied about his wealth, that he lied about his sex life, that he lied about his vulnerabilities going into the 2016 election get to the very heart of whether people would have made the same choice if they had known this information."
Legal analyst Lisa Rubin concurred with Wallace's assessment.
"[This] is why Bragg categorized as the election interference case," said Rubin. "In some respects, it is novel. Yes, it is the bread and butter of the D.A.'s office. Yes, there's a statute that allows you to go after people for falsifying business records in aid of a felony and the one that they chose here is somewhat unusual. But I guess what I would posit back at people is, did you ever think that someone who was sexually assaulted by a former president almost 30 years ago would sue for defamation? Isn't that in and of itself novel as well? The vehicle by which E. Jean Carroll gets her measure of justice is not through the criminal justice system, which is where many victims get their justice, but by suing him for defamation because to your point, it is a lie at the core of who this person was and is."
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"The cases we're dealing with now in New York are principally about who Donald Trump was before he was president," Rubin added. "The cases that are yet to come are about the type of person he transformed into having been that person all along as the President of the United States."
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