‘Trump’s real crime was leading Joe Biden in the polls’

Allies of former President Donald Trump were quick Thursday to decry a Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict in his hush money trial as a political ploy by Democrats and President Joe Biden to destroy his enemy — and possibly democracy.

One of Trump’s pollsters, John McLaughlin, told Secrets, “President Trump is right. Joe Biden and his supporters have corrupted our legal system and used it to try to defeat their leading political opponent. President Trump’s real crime was leading Joe Biden in the polls.”