Early Start With Kasie Hunt: 'You're Lying': George Conway Clashes With Republican Commentator Over Donald Trump Guilty Verdict'

Source:CNN with a George Conway vs Scott Jennings live TV debate.

"Lawyer George Conway and CNN Senior Political Commentator Scott Jennings joined “CNN This Morning” to discuss Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in his criminal hush money case." 

From CNN

I'm not going top try to play mindreader and argue that Scott Jennings is lying here. He just might be complete idiot when it comes to New York State law and simply not know what he's talking about. And since I don't know if that's true or not, I'm not going to call him a liar on this. But he might a be political genius (but I have my doubts on that) when it comes to political analysis. 

I think what Scott Jennings is doing here (and this is just my personal theory) is taking a page from Senator Marco Rubio's political playbook. 

When Senator Rubio was running for President in 2015-16, he was almost as Never-Trump as George Conway is right now. Until it not just cost him the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, and almost cost him his U.S. Senate seat. Now, at least until he thought he might have a shot at the Republican vice presidential nomination, he's not Never-Trump or MAGA. He was Marco Rubio and his concern has been really since the 2016 presidential election has been getting through the current MAGA moment, without offending too many Independents in Florida, Or, losing MAGA voters in Florida. 

Scott Jennings is a career Republican and career Republican political strategist and political analyst. He's also in his mid 40s now and is smart enough to know that whether Donald Trump wins or loses the presidential election in 2024, the Republican Party will still be here in January next year. And that's the only place for him to be, as long as he wants to continue to work in American politics. And he believes that right now for him going forward, he has to sound like the partisan Republican, whose always defending the Republican whose in trouble, at call costs. 

To correct one thing that Scott Jennings said: It's illegal in New York to commit one crime to cover up another. False business records in New York is a misdemeanor. Except when you do that to hide another crime and in this case illegal campaign contributions. Which is how Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies yesterday, by filing false business records by claiming that they were legal expenses, when the fact is they are political contributions to his political campaign. I'm not a lawyer, but I've followed this case long enough and read enough about it, to be able to explain the crimes that Mr. Trump was convicted of. 

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