i m paul gigot. a manhattan jury found donald trump guilty this week on all 34 counts of false iffying business records, the first time in history that a former u.s. president has been convicted of a felony. thursday afternoon s verdict marked a dramatic end to the almost 6-week trial, but trump vowed that the legal fight is not over. this was a rigged decision right from day one. with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never. and we will fight for our constitution. this is far from over. paul: let s bring in jim trusty, a former federal prosecutor and former donald trump attorney. welcome, jim. good to see you again. so what do you make of this verdict? well, it s not a shock, unfortunately. i mean, this is the lawfare. it s really at a its worst with. you had a politicized prosecutor who had a picked through the trash of a case that the southern district of new york specifically rejected doing that his predecessor rejected doing, but
conduct and that the two incidents did not meet the conditions for recusal. in a separate letter to senate democrats on thursday, chief justice john roberts declined to weigh in on the flag controversy and refused their request to meet citing concerns over the separation of powers. so, or kyle, was justice alito right in his response on the merits? yeah, absolutely. i would say a few things. one is that the standard for recusal is not that anyone, anywhere with any motive can make an argument that you are not ima partial, it s impartial, it s someone with all of the facts looking at it reasonably paul: who is unbiased right. who is unbiased. and i think that s true in in this case. he add had nothing to do with either of these flags. he asked his wife to take down the whereupon side down american flag when he learned of it. the mag at his beach house in new jersey is a historic flag associated with the american revolution. another thing that i think that s important to cons