A former top government lawyer appointed by President George W. Bush said Donald Trump has decided that he can't win a $250 million fraud case in New York.
Moments after Trump entered the courthouse on Monday for his first day of trial, Yoo faulted the former president for kicking off the event with a political speech.
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"Attacking the judge for being rogue, saying the main prosecutor, the attorney general, is racist," Yoo told Fox News. "Now there's no way that this judge is going to find at all in the favor of President Trump."
"And I think on appeal he's going to lose because this is not the kind of case appeal judges are going to want to get involved in and reverse factual findings by the trial judge," he added. "So I think what you're seeing here is actually throwing in the towel on the law and using it instead as a platform to amplify his political message."
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Yoo predicted that Trump's "political message will tube and tank his ability to prevail at all in this legal process."
