Trump was forced to listen silently as potential jurors offered their unvarnished assessments of him
New Yorkers who said they couldn’t approach the case fairly were excused during jury selection. But one of the women with the harshest assessments of him will be among those who will determine his fate on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
“I don’t like his persona, how he presents himself in public,” said the woman, who has lived in upper Manhattan for the last 15 years. The woman said she didn’t agree with some of Trump’s politics, which she called “outrageous.”
“He just seems very selfish and self-serving, so I don’t really appreciate that in any public servant,” she said, adding that while she doesn’t “know him as a person,” how he “portrays himself in public, it just seems to me it is not my cup of tea.”
Trump’s legal team took issue with her responses, but they were out of challenges by the time she was up for consideration.
Keep in mind that these jurors are from NYC. In 2020, Manhattan voted for Biden 86.7% and Trump 12.3% and that's certainly not representative of nationwide popularity.
Yes, understood. Any analysis would need to referenced against the same population as the jury selection pool to be relevant. Though the pool itself may not be cleanly from within the NYC limits, depending on the court jurisdiction. Given the population density of NYC though, it probably biases source of jurors no matter what.
Any decent statistician would account for these variables.
The jury pool is 100% from NYC, Manhattan even. Notice how these people have detailed opinions on Trump from before 2015.
These are his neighbors on the island who know him best. And it's fitting that they get to judge him in this case. They are going to lock him up and throw away the key as hard as is possible with this case.
Juror of peers and all.
Not only Sith, juries work in absolutes.
It only takes one holdout to scuttle the whole thing.
Postpone*
Yea but functionally, each attempt at the trial will be weaker and push the prosecutors to lessen the sentence to get the conviction. I don’t know any cases that survived 2