Dr Phil schooled on law in disastrous CNN interview moments after sitting down with Trump

Dr. Phil was repeatedly educated on the law and common trial practices in a disastrous CNN interview after he aired his sit-down with Donald Trump, where the TV personality spewed several wrong assumptions on the fairness of the hush money trial.

The unlicensed psychologist’s sit-down with the former president was widely criticizedafter Dr Phil gave Trump softball questions and allowed him to spew lies about his record and President Joe Biden.

After Dr Phil said he believed the former president didn’t get due process in his hush money trial in which a Manhattan jury convicted him of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, CNN’s Abby Phillip asked him to explain his reasoning.

“I think [the jury] heard some things that were very prejudicial that had nothing to do with solving the problem of the case at hand,” the TV star said, telling Phillip he was referring to Michael Cohen’s testimony.

Dr Phil added he didn’t think an accomplice to a crime who has pleaded to their role is allowed to testify in another case because ‘it’s very prejudicial” and doesn’t go to proving the case.

Phillip responded by telling Dr Phil it is not uncommon for people like Cohen to testify “in subsequent trials for their alleged co-conspirators.”

“That’s kind of how a lot of these prosecutions work,” she said.

Cohen, Trump’s former fixer turned nemesis, provided key testimony tying Trump to the hush money payment. The former lawyer testified Trump directed him to pay $130,000 to Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 presidential election so she wouldn’t go public with a story about having sex with Trump a decade earlier in 2006.

Dr Phil continued to push back as Phillip schooled him on common trial practices.

“It happens in mob cases all