'He's going to pop': Warning given about Trump’s age and stress during hush money trial
During an MSNBC panel discussion about Donald Trump's upcoming hearing on contempt charges related to attacks made on jurors and witnesses in his hush money trial, a former prosecutor predicted the former president is headed for a major meltdown
Speaking with the hosts of "The Weekend," Charles Coleman Jr. suggested the trial that will commence next week in the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan will be long and intense and that Trump's age and ability to deal with the stress could be a major factor.
Asked what he predicts will happen in the coming week when opening statements will be presented and the first witnesses will be called, Coleman went in a different direction about how the trial is weighing on the embattled ex-president.
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"Donald Trump is not used to being in spaces where there are narratives advancing about him that he cannot counteract and that is exactly why he has so much trouble with this gag order," he told the hosts.
"There are things being said about him and he feels as if his hands are tied: he cannot stand the feeling," he elaborated. "And I joked about it at the beginning of the last segment. The truth is that trial is a very long, arduous and exhausting process. For someone of his age, it is a lot of stress to deal with. That is why I fully expect, regardless of what happens with Judge Juan Merchan's recent ruling this week, he is going to pop."
"He is going to violate the gag order in grand fashion in front of the media and I think it will come sooner rather than later because it is not a position he is used to being in," he added before suggesting, "If I'm the prosecutor in this case, I'm going to sit back and let it happen."
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