Pessimism growing in Trump's inner circle that a hush money guilty verdict is inevitable


by Raw Story

Raw Story— In a deep dive into how the Manhattan hush money trial is affecting Donald Trump emotionally, the New York Times' Maggie Haberman is reporting that members of Trump's inner circle are starting to accept that he will be found guilty.As Haberman notes, there is an aura of doom in the Trump camp that the trial is diminishing the former president as he is forced to sit at the defendant's table for four days a week which is crippling his ability to campaign.Along with that, there is a growing...

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