Attorney John Phillips, who represented Omarosa Manigault Newman, joined Forbes Senior Law Editor Liane Jackson on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss Trump using money to kill the Stormy Daniels story.
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00:00 Do you feel that these sorts of tactics, though, rise to the level of election interference?
00:05 When you're watching, you know, from an attorney's perspective, from a defense attorney's perspective,
00:09 watching this, even from a plaintiff, you do both sides, plaintiffs and defense.
00:13 Watching this, do you feel that the prosecution is making its case, though, you know, there's
00:17 financial record disclosure questions that they may or may not have a strong case for?
00:22 But do you feel that this sort of hush money, catch and kill, all of this, and trying to
00:27 prevent negative press as you're campaigning for the highest political office in the country,
00:34 potentially the world, do you feel like the prosecution is making its case to the jury
00:39 and the American public?
00:41 I think the prosecution is making its case.
00:44 And more than think, I believe it has to matter.
00:48 You can't just use other people's money to run for the highest office that America allows
01:00 and do anything you want with that money.
01:03 And, look, there's lots of wrong with campaign finance laws, but the way they used it, and
01:11 again, I'm in a little bit of a different situation than a political commentator, because
01:18 I've had 15 calls with Michael Cohen.
01:21 You know, I've been in rooms where we discuss, you know, I've talked to Jessica Denson and
01:27 AJ Delgado and a lot of the folks that, you know, have been on this witness stand I've
01:34 had communications with.
01:36 And so I get things at a different level and it's dirty.
01:44 And, you know, the main thing here is to follow the money and what was it used for.
01:50 This wasn't Trump's money.
01:53 It rarely ever is.
01:55 But this wasn't Trump's money.
01:57 This was money that was spent by people who were sold that this was for him to be used
02:04 for pats and posters and political related things that he was using to hide from the
02:12 American public, from the voters, all these bad things about him or silence his enemies.
02:18 And that's where it crosses a line.
02:22 And you know, this jury, I hope, gets it right.
02:25 And I hope Congress, you know, eventually comes to its senses and says, look, we can't
02:30 keep allowing no rules presidential elections.
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