Donald Trump bemoaned his legal predicament outside a Manhattan courtroom after jurors left to deliberate his fate, and a former prosecutor was struck by his downcast demeanor.
The former president complained the trial was "rigged" against him, saying even "Mother Teresa could not beat these charges," and MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman Jr. said that doesn't sound like a man who expects an acquittal.
"What's interesting to me is, when you saw Donald Trump very briefly there come out and give his remarks, that wasn't a man who spoke as though he felt good about the case," said Coleman, a civil rights attorney and former Brooklyn prosecutor. "That was not a man who spoke as though he felt confident about what this outcome would be. Granted, from the very outset, he has been priming the public around the narrative that this has been rigged from the start, but when I watched him, the bravado was absent, the humility almost seemed to be weighing him down."
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"It's so obvious, because it's counter to everything we have seen and known about this man for the past eight years," Coleman added. "I think that that is such a very telling sort of notion around how he thought things went and what he thinks he is up against. There are a lot of defendants, I know for me that they will feel very confident about how things are going. They may not be right, but they will feel very confident from their perspective. The demeanor we saw from the former president was of a man who feels like, felt like for me watching it, he knows that there's a high likelihood of a conviction and it's not because of a rigged trial. It's because it did not go well for him."
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