{"id":2222090,"date":"2024-04-16T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sununu-defends-trump-over-manhattan-criminal-trial-people-see-it-more-as-reality-tv\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:37:24","slug":"sununu-defends-trump-over-manhattan-criminal-trial-people-see-it-more-as-reality-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sununu-defends-trump-over-manhattan-criminal-trial-people-see-it-more-as-reality-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Sununu Supports Trump Amid Manhattan Criminal Trial: Viewed as Reality TV by Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsununu-defends-trump-over-manhattan-criminal-trial-people-see-it-more-as-reality-tv%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2222090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During an interview with George Stephanopoulos on\u200b ABC News&#8217; \u201cThis \u200bWeek,\u201d Governor Chris\u200c Sununu of New Hampshire shared his perspective on former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Manhattan\u2063 criminal \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">trial<\/a>. Sununu believes the\u2063 trial won&#8217;t have significant political\u200c repercussions \u200das \u2064some\u200b anticipate, suggesting that many regard it\u2062 more as \u200breality\u2062 TV \u2062entertainment\u2063 rather than \u2062a pivotal political\u200c event. \u2062Governor Chris Sununu of\u2064 New Hampshire discussed \u200dformer\u200b President \u2062Donald Trump&#8217;s Manhattan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-whistleblower-edward-snowdens-wife-shares-photos-of-their-new-son\/\" title=\"U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden\u2019s wife shares photos of their new son\">criminal trial<\/a>\u2062 with\u2062 George Stephanopoulos on ABC\u2063 News&#8217; \u201cThis\u200b Week.\u201d Sununu\u200c expressed his belief \u200dthat the trial\u2064 won&#8217;t have significant political \u200cconsequences, \u200bindicating \u2062that it&#8217;s perceived more as reality TV than \u2064a major political development.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) said this week that former President Donald Trump\u2019s criminal trial in Manhattan will not have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-mccain-shows-sympathy-for-meghan-markle\/\" title=\"Meghan McCain Shows Sympathy For Meghan Markle\">political ramifications<\/a> that many of Trump\u2019s detractors believe it will.<\/p>\n<p>Sununu made the remarks during an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News\u2019 \u201cThis Week\u201d when asked if he would support Trump even if he was convicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, look, this trial is not going to have major political ramifications that a lot of people, I think, think it may have,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd when it comes to these issues, people see it more as reality TV at this point. They really do. And so, you know, whether it\u2019s a conviction or what that conviction looks like, a lot of folks, they conflate all four of these different trials that he\u2019s in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s good that he\u2019s going to be in the court, have to be in there probably three days a week, you know, for a number of weeks. That takes him off the campaign trail,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe\u2019ll probably go back on the campaign trail and almost, like, rehash what\u2019s going on. He\u2019ll try to victimize it. And that has worked for him, right? I mean, this has been going on for over a year, and his poll numbers never seem to go down because of the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopoulos said that he wanted Sununu to answer the question in terms of \u201cright and wrong\u201d and not through the lens of politics.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about politics,\u201d Sununu said. \u201cThat\u2019s what people are judging this on. And the ultimately, you know, decision will be in November, to see where people are. But for months, and even over a year, we\u2019ve heard that these are the things that are going to bring Donald Trump down. It\u2019s not. And to think that the American public is going to be massively swayed by this, politically or otherwise, that\u2019s \u2014 that\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pressed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GStephanopoulos<\/a>, Gov. Chris Sununu reaffirms his support for Donald Trump while standing by some\u2014but not all\u2014of his past criticism of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody should be shocked that the Republican governor is supporting the Republican president.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RFKwjVZ6bU\">https:\/\/t.co\/RFKwjVZ6bU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EY0j1zQuhe\">pic.twitter.com\/EY0j1zQuhe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThisWeekABC\/status\/1779528819432374701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu (R) downplayed the potential political impact of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Manhattan criminal trial. Sununu expressed his views during an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; indicating that he doesn&#8217;t foresee significant repercussions despite the trial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2222091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/07\/Untitled-design-2022-07-10T132400.499.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/07\/Untitled-design-2022-07-10T132400.499.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}