CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig declared that hed beg former President Donald Trump not to take the witness stand in his upcoming hush money trial.

Honig, on the Wednesday edition of CNN s The Lead, told Jake Tapper that you never quite know what the former president will do and called it unlikely for Trump to take the stand.

Its quite rare in a criminal case, Honig added.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to covering up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The trial is scheduled to start Monday.

He claimed last month that he wouldnt have a problem testifying in the trial.

I didnt do anything wrong, he told reporters at the time.

Honig noted that there was a bit of a preview already of how Trump might go about testifying, referring to the former president taking the stand in the New York civil fraud trial last year.

He took the stand in the civil case in New York, and that went dreadfully for Donald Trump . If I was his lawyer, I might try to remind him of that, said Honig of the chaotic testimony.

He went on to declare that he expects Trump not to take the stand if any sortve reason or sanity prevails, adding that he would implore him to behave himself in front of the jury.

H/T: Mediaite