Fox legal editor suggests Trump withhold federal money from New York until he receives a pardon for his conviction on 34 felonies
Kerri Urbahn: “They need to think carefully about this”
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From the November 12, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum
MARTHA MACCALLUM (ANCHOR): Governor Hochul could also pardon President Trump on these charges because it is a state charge, right?
KERRI KUPEC URBAHN (FOX NEWS LEGAL EDITOR): Yeah that's right and look she needs to really be thinking through this because New York state needs federal money and they get a lot of it. And there is a lot that the federal government could do in terms of pulling funding from both the city and the state of New York. There's a bunch of ways to do it through the Justice Department and other places, and you know, at the end of the day it's all politics. And so I can't help but wonder if behind the scenes Governor Hochul and her team are thinking carefully about this, as they should, and because look, and the big picture, the lawfare campaign against Donald Trump majorly backfired. So do they want to be responsible for Republicans in power again in 2028? I think they need to think carefully about this.