Harold Ford Jr.: Donald Trump Is As Gifted A Political Athlete As I've Ever Seen

On FOX News 'The Five' Harold Ford Jr. explained Donald Trump's political abilities: "First, when you think about Donald Trump as a candidate as a candidate for office at a political candidate, he is as gifted a political athlete as I have ever seen. I don't agree with a lot of his things, but you have to respect the business and understand how politics, the art of politics is litigating. This move here -- Dana, we had a conversation about this a day or so ago, here he is in New York. He goes to a bodega. He was at a gas station a day or so before. This is as good a campaigning as you can do. Weather -- some may argue or say the crowd was scripted, whatever happened there, it looked good.


This is the kind of theater you want when you are in a campaign and he was able to highlight, in addition to that, an issue on the forefront of a lot of voters' minds not just in New York but everywhere, my daughter and crime. I will refrain from some of the conversation analysis around D.A. Bragg, but if you look -- to the judge's point -- this juxtaposition of Donald Trump there versus trump, this is what is going to be talked about over the next day or so, so as a political move, as a political athlete, this was a very, very smart thing for the president to do. Now I don't think it is going to necessarily have an impact on the trial itself, but on the campaign itself, there is no doubt, this is one of the smarter things the president can be doing."