{"id":2223580,"date":"2024-04-17T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remember-bill-clinton-stephen-a-smith-pleads-with-democrats-stop-disaster-trump-hush-money-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T22:08:26","slug":"remember-bill-clinton-stephen-a-smith-pleads-with-democrats-stop-disaster-trump-hush-money-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/remember-bill-clinton-stephen-a-smith-pleads-with-democrats-stop-disaster-trump-hush-money-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A. Smith urges Democrats to recall Bill Clinton and halt Trump hush money trial chaos"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fremember-bill-clinton-stephen-a-smith-pleads-with-democrats-stop-disaster-trump-hush-money-trial%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=2223580&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>Stephen A. \u200dSmith voiced concerns about the\u2064 &#8220;disastrous&#8221; hush money trial\u200c involving Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels. In his podcast, \u200che criticized\u200d the\u2064 prosecution, reminding Democrats of Bill Clinton&#8217;s past scandals. Smith questioned \u2063the motives\u2064 behind targeting Trump legally \u2064and \u200creferenced other Democrats&#8217; controversies. He highlighted\u2063 issues like Iran\u200c and border problems, urging Democrats to focus on defeating Trump fairly.  <\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stephen-a-smith-apologizes-for-saying-rihanna-aint-no-beyonce-ahead-of-super-bowl-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen A. Smith<\/a> pleaded with Democrats to stop what he called the \u201cdisaster\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-what-happened-during-day-1-of-trumps-hush-money-trial\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hush money<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  trial of former President <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  involving porn star Stormy Daniels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Stephen A. Smith Show\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymjdmzh9BEA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">podcast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on Tuesday, the ESPN host blasted the criminal prosecution of Trump \u2014 who\u2019s facing 34 charges, accused of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-the-charges-brought-against-the-trump-organizations-cfo-part-of-a-witch-hunt-experts-weigh-in\/\" title=\"Are The Charges Brought Against The Trump Organization\u2019s CFO Part Of A Witch Hunt? Experts Weigh In\">falsifying business records<\/a> to cover up an alleged affair with Daniels \u2014 reminding Democrats of former President Bill Clinton\u2019s Oval Office<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">dalliances while president and married.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLadies and gentlemen, this is a disaster\u2026 You want Trump gone, beat him\u2026 Is it possible it could be perceived that you are going after Trump using lawfare because you can\u2019t beat him. Because you know the issues don\u2019t favor you?\u201d Smith said, noting things like Iran, Ukraine, trouble at the border, and rising crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cY\u2019all remember Bill Clinton? \u2026Lying under oath. Remember that? No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-seeks-to-change-age-of-consent-to-15\/\" title=\"France Seeks To Change Age Of Consent To 15\">sexual relations<\/a>?\u201d he added, pointing out other Democrats like former Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards who had an illicit affair with a campaign aide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The host asked if the Democrats were \u201creally, really\u201d planning to \u201cpush this where a state like New York has a former President in a courtroom because he paid $130,000 in hush money\u2026to keep a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/someone-should-remind-ex-porn-star-mia-khalifa-that-porn-same-sex-relationships-and-alcohol-are-banned-in-gaza\/\" title=\"Someone Should Remind \u2018Ex-Porn Star\u2019 Mia Khalifa That Porn, Same-Sex Relationships And Alcohol Are Banned In Gaza\">porn star\u2019<\/a>s mouth shut about the fact that they got loose with each other because he didn\u2019t want that to taint his campaign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith then talked about the \u201csexual encounter\u201d Clinton had with the former White House intern Monica Lewinsky during his presidency and slammed the trial as \u201cmuch ado about nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To my liberal friends out there, all you\u2019re doing is showing that you\u2019re scared you can\u2019t beat him on the issues and the merits,\u201d the host said. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat\u2019s why he [Trump] keeps saying they can\u2019t beat me at the election, at the polls. This is the only way they can do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd if you don\u2019t put him in jail, and he still goes from being the presumptive GOP nominee to the official GOP nominee, and he goes to the polls, even though he was going to whine about winning and [the election] being rigged again, you have given more fodder to that argument, which means we\u2019ll never have peace in this country,\u201d he added. \u201cBecause tens of millions of people see what extent the other side is willing to go through just to keep him out of office because they can\u2019t beat him on their own merits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd they\u2019re going to say, \u2018Hey, you trumped us up against him again,\u2019 and we\u2019ll have no peace when all you gotta do is figure out a way to beat him on the issues,\u201d Smith continued. \u201cBut you haven\u2019t been able to do it. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can\u2019t beat him [Trump]\u2026 Everything you do shows me you can\u2019t beat him. It\u2019s a damn shame. It really, really is. It\u2019s embarrassing. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen A. Smith urged Democrats to halt the &#8220;disastrous&#8221; hush money trial of ex-President Donald Trump with Stormy Daniels. On &#8220;The Stephen A. Smith Show&#8221; podcast, he criticized the criminal prosecution of Trump facing 34 charges for alleged falsifying of business records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2223581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1196852558.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1196852558.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223580","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}