| Trump Trial 7
Jurors Sworn Amid Central Park 5
Talk Orange Man Memes Some Say
Too Much
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
LITERARY
COURTHOUSE,
April 16
– The second day of Trump
trial jury selection actually
got somewhere. By the end of
the day, nearly 6 pm, seven of
the 12 jurors had been
selected and sworn in.
Justice Merchan
said there will also be six
alternates. Still, he told
those selected to plan to come
on Monday ready for opening
statements.
The clash
of the day came when, after a
juror had been bought in
without the others to be
question about social media
posts, Justice Merchan told
Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche
that he felt Trump had tried
to intimidate the juror, who
had been only twelve feet from
him.
Imagine,
someone said, when it's
Michael Cohen or Stormy
Daniels.
But the
talk was not, at least for
this day, about Trump's Truth
Social post, but rather about
prospective juror's social
media. There was the woman who
said honk your horn for the
2020 election result.
There was
another who said lock Trump up
- he was removed for cause
and, on the other side, a real
estate man who admitted to
following Trump on Twitter,
but only when he was
president, and only while
learning Twitter which he has
now abandoned.
That he had
read "Art of the Deal" made
him, for some online, MAGA.
A man with
a public access cable TV show
about Harlem brought up the
Central Park Five. Some
jurors said too much.
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