- George Conway says a defense of insanity may be Trump’s best bet in New York.
- Conway was complicit in a series of inconsistent truthful social rants posted by Trump on Sunday.
- But Conway also said Trump would “never” advocate such a defense.
Conservative lawyer and expert George Conway says former President Donald Trump’s best bet against possible indictments in New York is to plead insane.
Conway was responding to a screenshot of one of Trump’s Truth Social rants on Twitter on Sunday.
“Are Attorneys for Coup Attempts Going to Use These Posts as Evidence in Defense of Insanity?” Huffington Post Correspondent SV Dating Tweeted.
“It’s really his best defense, but he never insisted on it,” Conway said. I answered.
In a Truth Social post that Date and Conway referred to, Trump unfoundedly accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and President Joe Biden in an anti-Trump “disinformation” campaign. accused of doing so.
On Sunday, Trump wrote nine posts to Truth Social, five of which were written in all caps. was alternated betweenthey also have a lot of baseless and baseless Claims about Bragg.
Conway told an insider on Sunday that, from a legal standpoint, even the insanity defense wouldn’t help Trump get off the hook in New York.
Bragg is now investigating whether Trump’s payments to Daniels were illegal campaign expenses and whether they violated New York’s election and documentation laws.Grand jury heard final witness testimony Later, Trump could be indicted in New York.
Conway and Trump had a strained relationship. Conway was married to former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway for 22 years.two They announced their split earlier this month..
Trump when they split congratulation Kellyanne Conway for divorcing “from her weird husband, Mr. Kellyanne Conway.”
George Conway, now a vocal critic of Trump, said last week that there would be three indictments of Trump. The first is from Bragg’s investigation into Trump’s possible role in paying hush money to Daniels in 2016. The third is whether Trump tried to overturn his 2020 election. An investigation in Georgia about how.
Conway told an insider that he believes the Mar-a-Lago case is the simplest “practically and legally” and most likely to send Trump to prison.
Trump denied having an affair with Daniels, claiming he never paid her $130,000 to buy her silence before the 2016 election.
Conway isn’t the first person to suggest Trump could admit insanity to criminal charges. He said Trump’s 14-page response to the council’s subpoena to him looked like a defense of insanity.
“I don’t think we can help him in any legal way unless he goes to the defense of insanity, and this paper seems to be proof of that,” Katial said. told then-MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart.
Katyal and a Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to an Insider’s request for comment sent outside of normal business hours.
