Laura Coates: ‘Different Criteria’ Would Have Applied in Hush Money Case If Trump Hadn’t Won 2024 Election

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COATES: "The notion of the fact that he is a president-elect, the fact that there would be a nuisance, so to speak, overhead if he were to have to abide by conditions while in office. The prosecutor himself today, Joshua Steinglass, making the point that every American has the right to have their president unencumbered by the burdens of essentially having to have that oversight. That was really the driving force here. Now, had he not won that election, very different criteria may have been assessed to figure out what would be the appropriate remedy."