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“The Five” co-host Greg Gutfeld said during a show segment on Thursday following Donald Trump’s 34-count felony conviction in his hush money trial earlier in the day that he believes the verdict will put the former president’s 2024 campaign “on steroids.”
A jury convicted Trump of violations of law in an attempt to hide a payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 campaign, though scores of legal experts on the right and left repeatedly said during the six-week trial they could find no evidence that Trump did anything wrong, accusing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of manufacturing the charges to ‘get’ the former president.
But the conviction is likely to supercharge Trump’s current presidential campaign, Gutfeld observed.
“I believe that they just gave Popeye a gallon of spinach laced with steroids and meth,” Gutfeld began, using a quip. “And I think you are going to see this – the numbers aren’t going to go in Biden’s favor. I think this will not only solidify the [Trump]bbase, it will radicalize it, it will infuriate the independents and the undecideds, and those who see Biden as a desiccated, you know, barely alive person will be, I think I’m energized by their spirits.
“One thing, to your point about it, spinach fuel, the Trump donation site crashed a few minutes ago,” co-host Dana Perino responded. “And it is still down, which means, I think to your point, the base will be energized. WinRed also having similar problems.”
Swinging it over to co-host Jess Watters, Perino noted further: Sentencing would be July 11th, Jesse. That’s two weeks after the first presidential debate. And four days before the RNC convention gets started. So it is all crunched.”
“Trump was found guilty because he beat Hillary and is about to beat Joe Biden. I thought I’d be angry. But I feel this cool resignation. This resoluteness. That we are wounded as a country. And we are not going to go down,” Watters said. “That we are going to get back up. We are going to regain our strength. And then we are going to vanquish the evil forces that are destroying this republic.
“And if you look at the American people, how are they looking at this? People are desperate for help from these politicians, for safety, for security. And these nitwits, consumed with hatred, are planning to destroy a man because he threatens their power,” Watters went on. “These are wicked people, obsessed with a person, and we will seek justice. We guarantee that.
“This man’s life is a Greek tragedy. From billionaire, bankrupt, TV star, and Hollywood Walk of Fame. Divorces. Marriages. Children. And that was even before he entered politics. And then you have investigations and hoaxes and a pandemic. And now they are trying to incarcerate this person. And the only way this act ends is if he is reelected, and it looks like he will be reelected,” Watters added.
WATCH:
Former Fox News star and current top SiriusXM podcaster Megyn Kelly reacted to the conviction by saying that Democrats would “rue the day” they used the legal system to “corrupt a presidential election.”
The host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” took to X, formerly known as Twitter, and voiced her disapproval of the jury’s decision to find Trump guilty on all 34 counts in the hush-money trial.
“Guilty on all counts. The country is disgraced. Alvin Bragg should be disbarred. They will rue the day they unleashed this lawfare to corrupt a presidential election,” Kelly wrote to her 3 million followers.
She also slammed the “outrageous prosecution” of Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.