Jesse Watters’ Trump Defense Doesn’t Go So Well [Video]

Jesse Watters seems to have accidentally told viewers what Donald Trump allegedly did wrong in the hush money case.

“His lawyer paid Stormy and, after the campaign was over, the money was reimbursed and booked as a legal expense,” the Fox News host said Monday, hours after opening statements were delivered at the former president’s historic trial.

That’s pretty much what prosecutors say happened — and not what Trump’s legal team says happened.

Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. According to prosecutors, just before the 2016 election, Trump’s then-attorney, Michael Cohen, paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence on her claim she had an affair with Trump a decade earlier.

Trump then reimbursed Cohen in a series of payments from the Trump Organization described falsely as retainer fees, obscuring expenditures that hid damaging information from the public before the election, prosecutors allege.

During his opening statement, Todd Blanche, Trump’s lead attorney, acknowledged …