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Megyn Kelly has slammed Donald Trump's ongoing hush money trial - describing it as 'disgraceful' and a humiliation to the United States.
It is the first time a former American president has faced a criminal trial. Kelly said this broke a 250-year precedent and was an example of the legal system being used against an ex-president in what was a 'humiliation' of the country 'like she is a whore'.
The charges center on $130,000 in payments that Trump's company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen.
He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep porn actor Stormy Daniels from going public with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier. Trump has denied the encounter ever happened.
Prosecutors say the payments to Cohen were falsely logged as legal fees.
Megyn Kelly blasted Donald Trump's ongoing hush money trial, calling it 'disgraceful' noting it's the first time a former US president has faced such charges
Donald Trump is seen speaking to the press at the end of the second day of jury selection in his trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City
The prosecution has described the money as being part of a scheme to bury damaging stories Trump feared could help his opponent in the 2016 race, particularly as Trump's reputation was suffering at the time from comments he made about women.
Kelly said on her show: 'To me this is a sad and disgusting day… I woke up today feeling unsettled, feeling down about this case.
'It's not that I love Trump as you guys know, I'm not a Trump lover. I'm not a sycophant. I'm not a Trump derangement person either. I'm sad for our country.
'I am sad for Trump that he's being put through this. What's he accused of doing? Paying off – yes, she's a porn star but let's just be honest about it – a lover to keep quiet about an affair. And then that writing down in the books, “I paid off a lover to keep quiet about my affair.” They've ginned up that moment into 34 felony counts.
'For that, they broke nearly 250 years of precedent and indicted a former President. It's a disgrace. It's a humiliation for us, the United States. Forget Trump.
'Alvin Bragg, he's humiliated himself and he's brought us down with him,' Kelly said in an excoriating summary of the trial facing Trump.
'It's as if they took someone like Princess Diana and made her into a street whore. That's America, and what he's reduced us to today. But this mockery of our legal system in all of the “Get Trump” efforts, this one is the most offensive.'
The trial, part of Trump's legal challenges, is a critical moment in his political
