Donald Trump didn't testify at the end of his Manhattan criminal trial, despite teasing multiple times that he would do so.
When asked about this discrepancy outside the courtroom, eldest Trump son Donald Trump Jr. told MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard the prosecution was a "sham" to begin with.
Trump is on trial for creating false business records to cover up the hush money deal surrounding an alleged affair.
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"I attempted to ask multiple times about the decision for Donald Trump not to testify," the reporter explained. "Because it was Donald Trump himself who repeatedly suggested that he would, in fact, take the stand and tell his truth to this jury. Ultimately, when the opportunity was presented to him today, the defense rested its case and chose him not to take the stand."
Critics have mocked Trump as a "coward" for refusing to testify under oath in his own defense.
The Trump heir joined a number of political allies to complain about the facts of the case, which he said are not true.
'I tried to follow up with the question: Donald Trump had the opportunity to share his version of the story with the jury, and he chose not to," Hillyard recalled to the hosts.
Finally, Hillyard said that Don Jr. began to explain.
"Why would you justify this insanity? Look at the clowns that they put on there — you don't subject yourself to that nonsense," he said, evidently speaking of the jury. "You are going into a kangaroo court. There's nothing more. Nothing less. There'd be absolutely no reason, no justification to do that whatsoever."
Trump is essentially making the case that testifying would "justify the proceedings." So, he is now refusing to testify.
“Yeah. I will testify. It's a scam. That's not a trial. It's a scam...It's not even a crime," said Trump on April 12.
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