By Illinois Review
On Monday, Illinois Review Editor-in-Chief and Newsmax political commentator Mark Vargas appeared on the conservative news channel to discuss the Trump trial – calling it a “circus” as the prosecution’s case falls apart after their star witnesses lose all credibility on the stand during President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in New York City.
Appearing on Monday during a breaking news segment on Newsmax, Vargas noted the absurdity of the case, saying,
“I think there’s no question that the prosecution is really grasping at straws and it doesn’t take a legal scholar to see what’s happening here – and there’s a problem when your two star witnesses – your two key witnesses – both Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen are proven liars.”
Vargas also pointed out that both star witnesses personally “profited” off President Trump – the defendant in this case, by promoting “merchandise saying ‘let’s put the 45th President of the United States Donald Trump – let’s put him behind bars – let’s put him in jail’.”
The judge overseeing the trial – Judge Juan Merchan – has yet to address glaring “conflicts of interest” as Vargas pointed out – bringing into serious question the judge’s inability to conceal his political bias where the defendant is a former U.S. president and the presumptive Republican nominee for president in the 2024 presidential election.
“This has been nothing but a circus and the fact that this judge who made a very small donation – but it’s a donation nonetheless to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in 2020 is real problematic – and it does represent a conflict of interest – his daughter being a Democratic political operative. And so when you put all of these things together, the prosecution is in real trouble and I think the jury is going to be smart enough to see that they are also in trouble with all of these blatant conflicts of interest.”
Vargas then called the trial a “circus that should no longer continue.”
The IR Editor-in-Chief and political commentator has appeared regularly on Newsmax during the trial offering insights and commentary.
Both the prosecution and defense have rested their cases and closing arguments begin next Tuesday.
