i have a travel advisory for new york city, a very conservative or a republican or a trump supporte york citr. beware in the weaponized biden criminal justice system. well, political differences are now considered especially heinou, politis. h and if new york's powerful democrats hate your politicsei, well, a prison cell might well be in your future or some kind of conviction for something. well, that they make up withouts a second thought. well, those these democrats, a crie make up a crim conduct, a show trial rig, tri a conviction with a hand-pickea, biden donating judge, regardless of the evidence. if they could even explain i regardlet. and just hours ago, the former president of the unitehours agd states now running for a second term, donald j. trump, wasrunning fo convicted d felony counts and will be sentenced o h, a few daysa before the republican convention. how convenientfew days. but most americans, including people in that very courtroocano can't even identify the alleged feloniesy the that is because i is a conviction without a crime. pom against joe biden's cheap political rival, rival in the middle of ina presidential campaign. the only so-called evidence was a presid testimony, let'sed tes say, from a serial liartifr who admitsom has an ulterior i motive, who is even likely caught lying on the stand during his testimony. we'll see over time and is now te wil and admitted thief on top of everything. but of course, the left, they will celebrate.celebr they will sing. they will dance.at sin they will high five gleefully call trump a convicted felon. wive,now they're cheering the d of what would be, let's see, equal justice under the law,l ju equal application of ourst. let me bear no doubt here thisr is a sad day for our country. it's a sad day forth our justice system. the best justice system ever created by man. the foundationticete of ourtion constitutional republic. it's literally dying befor e. your eyes. lawfare now rules the day. if a former president running for a second term with near unlimited resourceins can tre be treated like this. no one is safe. they shoul, nod send a chill dow the spine of every business leader and politician, not just in new york, frankly, because we have a weaponized departmento of justice under joe biden. you step out of line, a corrupt democrat of some kind somewhere will throw you in jail. but if you beat the living outu poli police officer or old people in new york city and it's on vider olo, don't wo. no bail needed and a slap o on the wrist. nis that justice to you? in this case, bragg employed this novel new never applied before legal theory again, never trie d u.s. history. he took a far fetched misdemeanor. well past the statute of limitations, then magically convertesdemeanod into a felonya federal law based on someny nebulous, unspecified federal o election violation that was neve r charged or prosecuted,which of which he has zero jurisdiction. bragg then multiplied same charge 34 times. that's a shady maneuvechargercad called count stacking the case that mysteriously made its way a a far left partisan, judge. name one, merchan. oh, by the way, donated to joe biden, martians daughter, a democratic n joe political operative who reports they may very well profiocalt ts very trial. that would be cause for recusal. bbut no one in new york's face of a fake justice system. so this is what a conflict of interest. remember a, he was purposelye picked for every single trump rathted case rather than having a pool that they chose from as per usual course of business. this was a dream true for juan merchan. he never even tried to hideccori his bias, according to witnesses in the courtroom. marshawn, to simplngy the prosecution allowing rampant speculation. erro simply coddlel event immats against donald trump. he all but encouraged the prosecution to mislead the jury and insinuate tiat michael the cohen's electin crimes were tied to this case. he should be viewe to d as an accessory to the the trump crimes before the convictionctio that happened earlier today. very different storyn, t with te defense version actually blocked testimonye actm an election law expert, bradley smith, former head of the fetior he berated trump's team and their key witnesum ts in frt of the jury. he rejected nearly every objection by the defense. he attempted to silence donaldnn trump with was a clearly unconstitutional gag order. and perhaps worst of all, his jury instructions were completely unconstitutionafl, telling jurors they didn't need need what the phantom law was or the phantom underlying election felonyphantr as long as they agreed he did something wrong. that was enough for a convictione didthat and accorg to juan merchan, well, it did not need to be unanimous in thet sense of what they believed. naturally, the jurors didn't even teve. did specify on theiri in other words donald trump was fouled and was insane. well, is because it is insane. first, we know from the 2020 supreme court ruling, ramos versus louisiana, quote, there ramendmno question eithe that the sixth amendment unanimity requirement appliesrer to state and federal criminal trials equally. that's notemte i all. here is the us supreme court cure us,rom andre's versus quote, unanimity in a jury verdict required whereired whe the sixth and seventh amendments apply in criminals ru cases. this requirement of unanimity extendiremens to all issues. >> and by the way, character orr degree of the crime, guilt, punishment, which are left to thef th jury. let me repeat. in criminal cases, the requiremena t unanimityse te extends to all issues. that's not what thet wh judge instructed this jury. trump also the a right to knowed what he's being charged with. he didn't know the whole time e according to cornell law, the sixth amendment of our constitutiong toe sixt grants,ga all americans the right to known who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and the evidence againste natur. apparently, this rule of law that doesn't apply to juan merchas rulen either. he ignored all civil liberties during his instructions to juror alls. of course, it likely wasn'ty wa a problem for the jury. they barely deliberated despite the complexity of the novel legal theory at play. and they probably all hate donald trump.t so it was probably an easywa sell. remember, york city voted against trump? well, almost 9 to 1. you know, god forbid trump gotth the change of venue. that would have been the right thing to de changevenue o. cutin not what a political persecution is in the works. no, that's not is in in the cards for many democrats. thr the lawce unde is now completely tonight meaningless. they just conservatives. they hate republicans and they certainly hate anybody with thee last name trump above all else. they are desperate for one party rule in perpetuity. they're alesperatel on usingt u our justice system as a political weapon. we've talked about the weaponization of our justice system, a dual justice ation of. d it is all for them, a means to an end. an ey, ankfull new york city's far left democrats. here's the best part of of tonight. they don't have the final saght now, here's president trump moments after the verdict. listen closelypresiden. >> it wa >> this was a disgrace. this was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt as a rigged trial, a disgrace. they wouldn't give us a venue change. we wer a e at 5% or 6% in thise at district, in this area. this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. is the real verdict is going to be november 5th by the people, and they know what happenedhappn here and everybody knows what happened here. we have ed a series back d.a. and the whole thing we didn't do anything wrong. i'm n, ery innocent ma and it's okay. i'm fighting for our country. d it'si'm fighting for our constitution. our whole country is being riggedtr right now. this was done by the biden administration in order to wound or hurt an opponent or a political opponent. and i think it's just a disgracenent. ting and we'll keep fighting. we'll fight till the end and we'll wiightn because g our country's gone to . we don't have the same countryon . we have a divided mess. we're a nation in decline, in serious decline. millions and millions of people ine, mil people our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists. and they're taking our country. we have a country that's in big trouble, but was a rigged decision right from day one with a conflictesion rdever who should have never been allowed to try this case? never. enand we will fight for our constitution. this is long from over. than ik very much. >> this case is far from over. r and you will get to render the final verdict in this case in 158 days. this case will be appealed. be v donald trump will be vindicated. i see no scenario in which thii, is not overturned. that's almost a certainty. but will it happen's almosa thn or after the election? all afternoon, all evening, what people have been asking me, what can we do? what can we do? what can wedo do? well, as president trump said, the real verdict will takeal vei place on november 5th. and by p the way voting early voting by mail over come your reluctance or resistance, the system we're stuck with, we needm we legal ballot harvestint to match the efforts of democratsharvesti surpass thm partisan observers to watch the voting all day and thee vote counting all night. but if you want this law faing continue elect joe biden. if you want the border crisilecs to continue, people coming from china, russia, iran syria, yemen, egypt, afghanistan, kazakhstanan, vote for joe therk unvetted if you like. defund dismantle no bail laws. vote for biden. if you want more biden,ion, r inflation, reelect the guy that caused it. joe bideee guyn if you're happye with the wars and the carnage overseas. joe biden' wars your guy. if you want all this, you get to decide. not 12 jurors in new york city. ultimately, it's younot 12r. americans who are rightly outraged by this verdict.. they need to take away one major thing, 158 days. you get to decide. and voting early. of course, you get to decide at the ballot box. you get to deliver the final verdict. sou get to whatever you're feelw today, may i humbly suggeshatevt you channel that into action on november the fifth. otherwise, this is thed yo america you will hand off to your children and your grandchildre tn, and it will be a steep uphill battle to everup revershille course. anyway, joining us with reaction, fox news contributor jonathan turley, the host of sunday night in america, fox news'sor, host trey gowdy i' us. >> guys, good to see you both. jonathan, you've been with us from the beginningve been . ic look, i was pretty realistic. we both communicated often on air and off air. i think this is a culmination of the weaponized versionof jus of our system of justice. now, for a long timeti for people, i think i think it's anr extraordinarily dangerous time for america. if you look at everything that wrdinarilerice talked about the judge and the conflicts that he ha d and the judge beinge a biden donojur and what the judge allowed in closing arguments and juryand wh instructions, the way he treated the defense in this case, , when you put itt all together, it really isn't t? prising, is ire no, it's not surprising. the instructions had that feel. i called in a column yesterday of a contained where you actually shoot game in a g in a cage because in defenseam of som ae of those jurors, they may have not seen any alternative. ty but conviction. i mean, keep in mind, this judge allowed the government to repeatedl judy tell them that was a fact that an election violation and that trump hadt ordered it judge merchan stayetd absolutely silent during abs that statement over and over again, even though it violated his instruction and to this day, we won't know what the jury decided on the conspiracy. ret courtrooalm listening to 34 guilty verdictts ,but they didn't say what the jury thought had happened. are n they were unanimous only that some crime, some secondarye seco crime occurred. judge merchan did not require themndime to reach unanimity onm that crime was. it so it's going to go on appeal and the appellate court won't know any more than we have in terms of knowledge as to wasion this an election violation, another falsification of documents, a tax violation. t >> and that's just simply nothe in the record. let >> you know, and trey, let mee bring you in here. and this was a pointg yod i've that jonathan had made and i'd made over and over again. the jury hadoveran been told don and dozens of times that the payments were campaignre violations, especially in closing that sixx hour closing. the judge let all of that go unconsciou t als, predicted in this case. case. then you have the issue of, you know, the four or four four where you could just think he's guilty. you're going have one group thinking he's guilty g for four people, think he's guilty for a, four for b,nk four for c. well, that is a direct violation of the u.s. supreme court decision. a dt the 2020 decision of ramos versus louisiana under, n us versus the u.s.. but again, this was allowethd. now, i believe it's overturned on appeal, but what does that appeal are going to happeep ? do you ever see anything likeen this? you're you know, you're a prosecutor. likthis prosecu d >>on't i don't think you ever l a casea . >> well, the jury was unanimous, sean, in its lack of unanimity. you're right. i tried cases where i had to prove an additionale iases . every death penalty case, you have to prove murder. plus something else beyond a reasonable doubt. and the verdict? the verdict. the jury has to specify what that additional crime is. as jonathan and i sit here tonight, we couldn't. we can't tele t hel you whethero was one of those three, whetheri some other crime that that's nebulous that we don't know about. i went i came last weeekk to ths courtroom. i'd heard rumors that the judge was pro-prosecution. look, i was a prosecutor, as you pointed out. s yopointei spent four days in e courtroom, not just. john, i mean, i cannot i would struggle think of a significant objection by the defense that it was actually sustained t and the tone with which he treatedhich that the counsels disparate. he was he let the prosecutor i mean, we were andy and were wr talking about the defense, i think failed to object sometimes to the prosecution closing argument because they had battered lawyer syndrome. they had just been beaten up las for weeks and weeks. so will it be overturnedeks.l on appeal? k of i can think of five different ways that it can be, but ithat i don't think it'll happen before the election. which to your other poinn befor the best revenge is success. if you want a justicngestan that doesn't elect a district attorney who promises to go afte doeelecr a political oppona then you need to win at the ballot box. you , alvin breck, name me another crime that he's gotten really, really exercised about.t it's not shoplifting, it's not stealing. it's not hitting'sit's not peop the street. it is alleged hush moneyit's tot keep someone quiet about a sexual encounter. et >> that's what really gets his attention. an>> sean: eight-year-old case,r $130,000 payment. you know, you really it does boggle the mind. a misdemeanor, the statute of limitations have run oumisde but somehow, when did a local new york city courtroom become a place to try a federal election a crime? jonathan turley because that seems rather novel to me tr as well. >> or a federal tax crime.al all righ tax ct well, that's whs so maddening about brad's comments tonight when he kepthek on saying, no, this is just standard stuffep. you know, at some point you just strange credulity. you have to admit. this has never been attempted before. even other networkr beens have d that. other networks have said that this wouldn't have been brought agains andd thatt anyonm than trump. and that that's something that if you're an honest perso n ,you have to accept thisn was a political use of the criminal justice system to create this novel, you know, effort. and and i think in the end, though, what you have to tell people who are upset about this is manhattant ar is not the entirety of this nation. we're biggerrety than this case. we're bigger than this district. we have a system that has proven itself over and over again in history. but wevean all to take a leap of faith, we have to take a breath. >> but, jonathan, let me ask you, ith. k yof may, lance said today, but we have a weaponized department of justice under joe bidehan. e bide remember, the third highest ranking official left that prestigious positionst - come in and work on this case? you know, do you agree with me that that doj is weaponized? i think it's pretty clear it i is. well, this case, i think, hasaly really fulfilled the argument of many that you a weaponizedthy system. the factoue we that colangelo ci from the third position in doj to help lead this case reallyme reaffirmed that. but, you know, being in that room, you had a sensece of history and it was overwhelming. the question is what history it made. yeah, they convicted, a former president, but they may thye also gotten this countr to focus in a way that has never happened before. n on the misuse of the legalth system. and so history may have been madee le in a different way. this may galvanize americans, including some that don't likep. donald trump, but they don't like what was done in this case to get donald trump and i had a feeling that we did have the sense of history in both ways, in that courtroom. >> trey, we'll give you the last word. what do you think the outcomu e this is? professor dershowitz will joines us latersor , thinks that this s is really a precedent setting moment and that this lawfare is onlndy going to continue because they were successful . ing ity >> at some point, it has to stop short and and look, do i blame allegedly progressive prosecutors or really defenses n attorneys masquerading as prosecutors? i do, but i really blame voterse who will electal people too go after certain targeted individuals. er prosecutors go after crime. they do not go after people. reo and the judge. there's a reason the lady wears a blindfold. sean, there'e lady a s reason for it.no she's not supposed to care whether you're republican or democrat t, white, male, female. if we don't get back to thoser days. i mean, you asked professor turley about the weaponizationts of doj. just look at what was done to jeff fortenberry and looks no do what was not done to the u.s. attorney in the district of massachusetts att. d her they had her on a falseonl statement. nothing happened to hestatemenr so you treat people the same. be fair. t that if we lose that, then we've lost our justice as well. mar-a-lago was ratedry hillary clinton. no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute, delete 33,000 emails, take money, give it to a law firm, funnel it to anrn app research firm, hire a guy. christopher steele got a dirty russian dossier. use it to acquire for pfizer warrants. no problemn and that is and and joe biden has no problemsh with classified and top secret document. classifiedt get rated. this is what americans are seeing tonight. and itis iwhat is a scary momenk i think, for the country. but thank you both. we appreciate you staying up late tonight. i know you guys have been working hard. thank you. all right here to reacti to today's verdict, former president president trump's legaknow beeng late, verdict,l . well, not former. i mean, she's president trump'ss spokesperson, lina harber. she's been in the courtroom the whole timeon the. >> you know, everybody i knowev around president trumperyb, he's completely stoic. did saw this coming. clea i guess that was clear in his comments about mother teresa. however in hr, sure, it doesn'te th