Chris Cuomo compares Trump trial to OJ Simpson and says both men are examples of 'the culture conflict between law and fairness'

Chris Cuomo has compared OJ Simpson with Donald Trump on his podcast, claiming both cases exemplified the 'culture conflict between law and fairness'.

In an episode of The Chris Cuomo Project released on Tuesday, the ex-CNN anchor discussed the 30th anniversary of Simpson's murder trial and his recent death.

Cuomo compared Simpson's infamous murder trial with Trump's blockbuster hush money trial that kicked off on Monday. 

He said: 'We are on the precipice of Donald Trump being the next example of the culture conflict between law and fairness politics and justice.' 

The 53-year-old NewsNation anchor began by claiming he believes both men were guilty of their accused crimes. 

Chris Cuomo compared OJ Simpson with Donald Trump on his podcast and said both of their cases exemplified the 'culture conflict between law and fairness'

Trump's long-awaited hush money trial got underway earlier this week

Cuomo said that OJ's murder trial was a 'no-brainer case' and that he was guilty of stabbing his wife and her friend to death in 1994

Cuomo said: 'OJ was a no-brainer case. Murder is most times about someone close to the victim. This is also an obvious case... Trump did it.' 

He continued: 'You don't always have to have a trial to know. You need to know beyond a reasonable doubt, perhaps. I don't need that here.'

Cuomo claimed Trump's Stormy Daniels case is about what it culturally represents, rather than the legal proceedings. 

'Donald Trump's case is more about what it means to prosecute this symbol in the form of a man than it does about the case itself,' he said. 

Cuomo went on to describe how both Simpson and Trump represent 'prosecutorial discretion.'

Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of the gruesome murders of Brown, his ex-wife, and Ron Goldman, her friend.

'The OJ case was more about racial injustice than it was about fairness under law,' Cuomo said. 

However, Cuomo said that Simpson did not necessarily get away with the murder because he was black - but because 'blacks were tired of an injustice-ridden process punishing them unfairly.'

It's been widely claimed that Simpson's 'dream team' of defense lawyers' played the race card in his trial - which ultimately led to the innocent verdict. 

Long-time civil rights campaigner, Johnnie Cochran, who took on the case, employed the tactic of not asking the jury whether his client was a cold-blooded killer, but if the Los Angeles Police Department framed him as part of a racist plot.

This tactic worked especially well because the Simpson trial came in the wake of the 1992 acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, which sparked ferocious rioting across the city. 

Cuomo said both Simpson's acquittal and Trump's trial represent the 'broader issues of fairness, privilege, and the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.'

He discussed how the dynamics of both Simpson's case and Trump's trial are biased and involve group think.  

'We're not talking about law and facts and the process there too with a jury, we are talking about the perception and the policy and the reaction.'

Cuomo said he believes Trump had disqualified himself from the presidential race 'a hundred times over' and that he was 'embarrassed by the idea that the best America can generate' are Trump and Biden. 

Trump's long-awaited hush money trial started earlier this week. 

The former president pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records over a $160,000 payment to cover up an alleged affair with porn star Story Daniels prior to the 2016 election. 

The first day of Trump's Manhattan trial ended on Monday with no one yet chosen to sit on the 12-person jury or as one of six alternates. 

In an episode of The Chris Cuomo Project released on Tuesday, the ex-CNN anchor discussed the 30th anniversary of Simpson's trial and his recent death

The former president pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records over a $160,000 payment to cover up an alleged affair with porn star Story Daniels prior to the 2016 election

The presumptive GOP nominee complained about a gag order, which prevents him from publicly commenting on jurors, potential witness and others related to his criminal cases.

Trump denied wrongdoing and said outside of court: 'I was paying a lawyer and marked it down as legal expenses account. Some accountant - I didn't know - marked it down as a legal expense. That's exactly what it was. And you get indicted over that?

'I should be right now in Pennsylvania in Florida, in many other states North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning.'