Morning Joe cracks up as Trump praises National Enquirer witness as 'very nice'
Donald Trump could be held in contempt of court for attacking Michael Cohen over the damning testimony he's expected to provide, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed incredulously when the former president praised another witness who has already provided strong evidence against him.
At an early morning campaign event in Manhattan, Trump said Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker was "very nice."
Pecker has told jurors that he paid to bury stories that could hurt Trump's 2016 election chances and published made-up stories to hurt his rivals, which supports the underlying crime alleged by prosecutors.
But the former president had nothing bad to say about him in the comments made Thursday morning.
"I was talking to a friend after David Pecker's testimony, as somebody who knows David Pecker and Donald Trump," Scarborough said. "I said, it's interesting — David Pecker just blew this case wide open against Donald Trump, yet nothing on Truth Social.
"My friend started laughing and said, 'You will never hear Donald Trump say anything bad about David Pecker.' [He] then suggested that, you know, he knows a lot more about Donald Trump than Donald Trump would want people to know. Listen to this, again, after this guy just blew open the case against him."
Trump told reporters that, "David has been very nice, very nice – he's a nice guy." Meanwhile, he could be held in contempt for violating a gag order by attacking Cohen and Stormy Daniels, both of whom could testify in the trial.
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Rev. Al Sharpton, who's also known the former president for decades, agreed with Scarborough's friend that Trump was afraid of Pecker.
"Whoever your friend is, I think is correct," Sharpton said. "When Donald Trump says David has been nice, when David got on the stand and just about nailed his legal coffin in terms of this trial, it is because he knows he's been nice not to tell all the other things he may know about Donald Trump.
"If you have a guy that knows 100 things and he only testifies to 10, you say he is a very nice guy because you don't want the other 90 to drop out."
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