'Impossible to see how Trump survives financially' as criminal trials begin: lawyer

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner stated that as bad as Friday was for Donald Trump, in light of being fined upwards of $450 million for financial fraud in a Manhattan courtroom, things are about to get much, much worse.

Noting the millions the former president has been ordered to pay New York writer E. Jean Carroll from two different civil suits, Kirschner pointed to the Trump hush money trial in March and multiple other criminal trials in Trump's future.

"Let's start with the ruling from Justice Arthur Engoron, what are your two top line takeaways?" host Phang asked.

"Well, Katie, among the top line takeaways is, I think we have to look at the trajectory that Donald Trump's civil trials have been on," he replied. "He started by losing a $5 million judgment, then he lost an $83 million judgment. Now he's lost more than $450 million judgment and, as you say, he is barred from doing business in New York for a number of years."

"Here is the thing," he elaborated. "As bad as all of that is, Lady Justice is just getting warmed up because next up for Donald Trump is his first criminal trial, then he has four criminal trials stacked up."

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"It is impossible to see how he survives politically, how he survives financially and I think you know all of this is just Donald Trump slowly being taken out of the system for the civil fraud, the civil wrongs, and the crimes he has alleged to have committed."

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