This Morning got a bit tense today when a guest accused Dermot O'Leary of 'putting him on the spot' while they were discussing convicted criminal, Donald Trump . In a monumental decision, the former US president, 77, was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic criminal trial in New York on Thursday. Dermot and Alison were discussing the jury's damning verdict with journalists Gyles Brandreth and Tom Swarbrick.
However, when Dermot suggested there was a three-strikes law in the US, suggesting you "get life" if you're in prison three times, Tom looked perplexed. Discussing the possibility of Trump being behind bars, dad-of-one Dermot asked: "Doesn't America have that three strikes and out policy..
. so if you're in prison three times, you get life?" Piers Morgan and Caitlyn Jenner throw support behind Donald Trump as he's found guilty in hush money case Tom Swarbrick he told Dermot O'Leary he felt 'put on this spot' on This Morning ( Image: ITV) Hesitating, Tom said: "I don't know about that." Responding, Dermot said: "Like I said, I didn't mean to put you on the spot there" to which Tom replied: "I feel put on the spot now.
" Quickly composing himself, he said: "I think you'd have to do something very, very serious. On the grand scale of all seriousness, this is not on the more serious end." Gyles, who was sporting a Donald Duck jumper, stepped in among the awkwardness, clarifying: "You would not normally be sent to prison for this sort of offen.
