Former Gov. Cuomo hits Trump conviction: If he wasn’t running, ‘case would’ve never been brought’

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Former Democratic Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo recently told HBO host Bill Maher that if former President Trump weren’t running for president, he never would have been prosecuted in the state for his hush money payments.

The former governor made the statements on HBO’s "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, agreeing with the host that the New York District Attorney should not have brought that case against Trump, because it reeks of politicization.

"The attorney general’s case in New York frankly should have never been brought," Cuomo declared on-air, noting that state residents who don’t even like Trump are offended by it because it looks like weaponization of the justice system.

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Cuomo’s attack on the case, which resulted in Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records, began by describing how a large swath of New Yorkers don’t view it as a fair case.

"The trials in New York, New Yorkers said – 66% said the justice system is politicized. And there’s nobody in New York who likes Trump," he said. "And still, 66% said the justice system is politicized. That’s why I think he’s not paying the same price for these verdicts because they believe it is political."

Cuomo, who resigned as governor following a sexual harassment scandal in 2021, described that the real