Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy on Monday raised concern over the possibility of former President Donald Trump getting a fair trial in the Manhattan hush-money case. 

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump on several felonies stemming from his hush money payment to Adult film star Stormy Daniels.

McCarthy, in an interview with “America’s Newsroom” co-host Bill Hemmer, said the former president would likely be convicted based on how Judge Juan Merchan was handling the case. 

“It’s a terrible case but it is going to go forward,” McCarthy told Hemmer. “I think there is a high probability Trump could get convicted because what has happened here is Alvin Bragg has taken one transaction, which years ago, if you brought it at all, should have been a misdemeanor falsification of business records in which there are no victims, nobody got harmed by this, the state wasn’t deprived of any tax revenue. He has carved it up into 34 acts he labeled as felonies that could put Trump behind bars for over a… century.”

Braggs office recently provided over 30,000 documents from the Justice Department to Trump’s lawyers on March 13. Many legal experts have argued that the case must be thrown out because the move violates New York’s discovery law. 

McCarthy is, however, skeptical that Judge Merchan will keep the case going.

“So, it’s a terrible case but the judge has been pretty much a rubber stamp on everything that Bragg has wanted to do, including his theory and the current dispute is over discovery,” McCarthy continued. “The judge is not going to throw this case out over discovery violation. He gave them three extra weeks to prepare and to go through the documents, which Bragg says are either duplicative of stuff Trump already got or else they’re inculpatory, don’t help him.”

McCarthy noted the judge had asked Trump’s lawyers not to take up any other engagement after granting the three weeks delay. The former prosecutor maintains that the judge’s decision means he intends to “keep his trial date.”

“The most important thing I think is that the judge, when he granted the postponement from March 25th to April 15th, told the lawyers and told Trump not to take any other engagements, in particular in the other cases that Trump is facing, and that sounds to me like a judge who wants to keep his trial date,” McCarthy said.