Piers Morgan accuses Americans of ‘losing their minds’ over treatment of Donald Trump during hush money trial

Piers Morgan has accused Americans of “losing their minds” over the treatment of Donald Trump at his New York hush money trial.

“Have you lost your minds, America? What a demeaning way to treat a former president.” Morgan said during an appearance on Fox News.

“Secondly, if you’re on the left, why would you think this would possibly work? Why would you not think that what you’re doing here is going to almost guarantee Donald Trump wins the next election?”

Trump is the first former US president to face a criminal trial and appeared at a Manhattan courthouse to witness jury selection on Monday. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg accuses him of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in October 2016 to stay silent about an affair she alleges she had with the politician in 2006.

Trump denies the affair and has pleaded not guilty to the 34 felony charges he faces.

Day one of the trial saw Judge Juan Merchan decline to recuse himself and rule on what evidence would be admissible as 50 potential jurors were dismissed after they admitted they could not rely on themselves to remain fair and impartial in a case concerning Trump.

For all that, it was the defendant himself who made the headlines after denouncing the case as “an assault on America” and complaining that it would cause him to miss his son Barron Trump’s high school graduation before having to hotly deny claims by reporters that he fell asleep in court, inviting a deluge of ridicule.

Joining Fox News’s The Five with panellists Jeanine Pirro, Greg Gutfeld, Jesse Watters and Dana Perino, Morgan denounced the trial as “utterly ridiculous” and “the most petty, self-harming acts of political suicide I’ve ever