Fox Sports talk radio host Colin Cowherd reacted to Trump’s guilty verdict by saying that Trump’s trial was not rigged, and called Trump a “con-artist,” stoking increasing disillusionment among his supporters.
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“He’s trying to sell me an America that doesn’t exist,” Cowherd said on the podcast The Volume. “I don’t see crime, I’m not stumbling over homeless people. I see happy people…I’m constantly being sold an America by Donald Trump of ‘crime rates are skyrocketing.’ No, they’re actually not…you can’t keep selling me on how bad the country I live in is, because it’s not bad for me and my friends.”
“Donald Trump is now a felon,” Cowherd said. “His campaign chairman was a felon. So is his deputy campaign manager, his personal lawyer, his chief strategist, his national security adviser, his trade advisor, his foreign policy advisor … they’re all felons.”
Those in the Trump circle who’ve been convicted of a crime include his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and former campaign vice chairman, Rick Gates; his former fixer, Michael Cohen; his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon; his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn; his former trade advisor, Peter Navarro; and his former foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos.
“The America I live in is imperfect,” Cowherd said. “But compared to the rest of the world, I think we’re doing OK.”
- Cowherd had predicted a “red wave” in 2022 when he accused Democrats of maliciously keeping children out of school during the Covid pandemic.
(The complete video can be viewed below.)