Dr Steve McCabe with analysis following the shock verdict in New York
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00:00This was a rigged disgraceful trial. The real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people.
00:12And this was done by the Biden administration.
00:16Trump, he put himself up at the last election and we're led to believe as a kind of publicity
00:21stunt for his game show, The Apprentice, and then famously won it against Hillary Clinton.
00:27Of course, what we've had ever since then is the Trump psychodrama, if you will,
00:32and the fact that this is the latest trial that he's been subject to.
00:35And of course, this involves Stormy Daniels, the infamous so-called porn star actress who
00:41he's supposed to have had relationships with and then paid her off. But of course,
00:45it's not so much that he's on trial for, it's the use of money and so on and so forth.
00:49And of course, let's not forget that Trump has had a lot of these allegations made over the years.
00:55Maybe this one will stick. The interesting thing about Trump is that no matter what they throw at
00:59him, it makes his popularity, if anything, greater amongst his base. What I worry about is, of course,
01:06that if Trump, regardless of what may happen to him in all of these trials, this is the man who
01:12the opinion polls tell us is most likely to be the next president of the United States.
01:16So that is a worrying prospect, the return of a character who in many ways,
01:20if you wanted to make up a sort of a comedic villain, if you like, or this
01:25larger life character, you'd be very hard pressed to invent it in your imagination.
01:30Why did they have so much chaos during his first time in office? And if he did get back in,
01:35would he know what he's doing a little bit more, do you think?
01:37Well, absolutely. I mean, the view is that he did not expect to win the election and had
01:42done no preparation, as would be the case with the normal sort of candidates.
01:47Albeit that, of course, he was campaigning on it, he was part of the Republican Party.
01:53But famously, the first couple of years were sort of littered with sort of gaffes.
01:58And of course, we sort of had then sort of leading into the pandemic, which, of course,
02:02we're all ill prepared for. And Trump came out with some sort of ludicrous sort of statements.
02:06You know, Trump is not a typical politician. He's not part of the establishment,
02:10despite the fact he comes from a property owning sort of family. But nonetheless,
02:15Trump sort of celebrates in his ability to sort of disrupt. And in that sense,
02:20he's very sort of good at it. But yeah, he wasn't prepared. This time round,
02:24he is hoping and expecting to win. So when he sort of takes us to the presidency
02:29in early November, if he should win, then I think he'll be much more ready to sort of hit
02:34the sort of buttons. He'll know where all the levers are and how to sort of do things.
02:37And of course, the other thing I do sort of predict, and again, Robert De Niro made this
02:42point yesterday, that a dictatorship insofar as I think that what will happen at that point
02:47is that he will sort of try and sort of overturn the law. That means that any American president
02:52can only sort of run for two terms. OK, he's not done it consecutively, which is normally the way
02:56it occurs. And yeah, we could see then sort of see Trump running for a third term,
03:01assuming, of course, he wins next time round and who knows what.