Lawyer Scharf tells Newsmax: Trump Trial is Full of ‘Smoke and Mirrors’

Donald Trump attorney Will Scharf told Newsmax on Monday that the prosecution against the former president took a technical business records case and, through a “smoke and mirrors campaign,” turned it into a shameful sideshow of a trial that they won’t be able to prove.

Joining “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Scharf dismissed Michael Cohen’s testimony earlier in the day, stating that the prosecution has yet to prove their case.

“Hush money is not a crime. Signing an NDA is not a crime. What’s been alleged here is technical business records violations from 2016 and 2017,” Scharf said. “If you actually look through the trial record, there’s practically not a single scintilla of evidence that any business records fraud occurred.

“We’re almost at the end of trial and they haven’t even started proving up the case that they claim they were going to prove,” Scharf added. “What they’ve done instead is introduce vast swathes of highly prejudicial but not at all probative evidence in an effort, I believe, to confuse the jury. I’ve called it a smoke and mirrors campaign before. That’s what we’re dealing with here.”

Scharf, a former assistant U.S. attorney, is currently in a primary battle against Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey in Missouri. Viewing the case through the eyes of a prosecutor, Scharf criticized Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s handling of the case.

“As a former federal prosecutor, I find it deeply offensive that a case like this would both be brought and prosecuted the way it’s been prosecuted. This is Banana Republic stuff. This is not the way criminal cases are supposed to proceed in courtrooms in the United States of America,” Scharf said.

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