Romney reacts to Trump’s hush money trial: “So far as I know, you don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you.”

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) reacted Tuesday to Donald Trump’s ongoing New York criminal trial.

Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of a hush money scheme to bury stories that he feared could hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. He is the first former president to ever stand trial on criminal charges.

“I think everybody has made their own assessment of President Trump’s character, and so far as I know, you don’t pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you,” Romney told a group of reporters, including CNN’s Manu Raju, outside the Capitol.

“Wow,” CNN anchor Brianna Keilar reacted after Romney’s remark aired. “What a soundbite. Reacting there to Donald Trump’s hush money trial as today’s testimony brought back to light multiple lurid allegations against the former president, including alleged affairs with a Playboy model, with a porn star, and an unsubstantiated accusation that he fathered a love child.”