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.
It’s happened before, yes. IIRC, one of the judges in another Trump case advised the jury to never reveal themselves, but outside of confidential information, they can’t really control what they do after the trial.
I would also assume that most publishers are treating this like a frigging demon core. Because it will instantly make the publisher the enemy of significant parts of the country (or world) and it will be parsed by lawyers(’ legal assistants) with a fine tooth comb for ANYTHING that can be deemed libel.
People don’t really understand that most of the right wing tell all bullshits are mostly just money laundering schemes. Nobody gives a fuck what eric trump snorted coke off of. But various republican “donors” gladly buy large quantities of that book to give money to other orgs.
That’s the 101 level course on how to launder campaign money to an individual.