Fox News host Jesse Watters says impeaching Donald Trump over his “hush money” allegations is putting his life at risk.
“And I have to tell you. You are putting Donald Trump’s life in danger,” Waters said Tuesday during the weekday conservative news show “The Five.”
Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records earlier in the day. It comes after the former president was impeached last week, making him the first president to be impeached.
“You’re setting that up and advertising to the whole world that the former President of the United States, the Republican candidate for president, is going to be at this place, at this time, on this date. And you have the towers , and you have windows,” Waters said, meaning someone could potentially try to harm or even assassinate Trump.
“You think it’s good for this country to put a guy like that in a certain place – December 4th. And then what if it goes to trial? He has to be there every day,” Waters said. asked the question. “You think that’s what the Secret Service wants? He’s dangerous. And he’s playing a dangerous game.”
On Monday, the former president traveled in his Trump plane from Palm Beach, Florida. for the debate in New York City, which began at 2:15 p.m. ET. He was brought to criminal court to face charges that he falsified a business record in the first degree. Adult film star Stormy Daniels claims Trump paid her to keep quiet about an alleged affair in 2016.
in his 16 page indictment Prosecutors say Trump “conceived a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election and procured negative information about him in order to suppress its publication and benefit defendant’s electoral prospects.” As part of his conspiracy, prosecutors say Trump made three payments to his associates — $30,000 to a former Trump doorman, $150,000 to a former Playboy Modern and $130,000 to Daniels — to cover up his alleged dirty dealings.
