ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The biggest story of the week in the world of politics has been the beginning of the trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump on allegations his personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump the month the month before the 2016 presidential election.
Jury selection in Donald Trump's hush money business fraud case began Thursday looking like the task of finding 12 jurors had had difficulties, after two of the seven initial jurors who were seated Tuesday were excused.
The coverage of the trial has certainly has been very wall to wall on national tv networks already, with Michael Kelley of Hancock and Kelley, which airs on KMOX every Friday morning at 8:30 a.m., compared the coverage of the trial to the trial of recently-deceased former football star O.J. Simpson.
"I feel like I'm living somewhat of a O.J. nightmare," said Kelley on Total Information A.M. "Remember when we had to live through every second of the O.J. trial? It feels like we're doing that with Donald Trump."
Kelley says that despite the coverage of the trial, he and his co-host John Hancock both believe that the trial won't really affect the presidential election.
"It's certainly not the strongest case of the four (Trump is facing)," said Hancock. "Trump does have what appears to be a pretty effective legal team on this one, and that's has not always been the case for some of his civil case, but I think he has a pretty good set of counsel here."
Kelley says that even while he believes it won't affect the presidential election, he believes it should.
"I don't this particular trial to affect the presidential election, though it should," said Kelley. "He paid off a porn star, and he's Republican whose selling Bibles. He's acting like he's a moral human being."
