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One challenge for the jury is the unusual layering of charges: The charges against Mr. Trump are felonies because prosecutors say he falsified the records to cover up another crime.
It’s the coverup that gets you, not the crime.
If he’d have just cut her a check directly, none of this would be happening.
It’s going to be insane if what brings trump down is that he underestimated what his voters would handwave away.
I don’t think he’d have lost a single vote if he just admitted he paid a pornstar for sex. Hell, with the way Republicans act he probably would have gained votes.
I don’t think he’d have lost a single vote if he just admitted he paid a pornstar for sex. Hell, with the way Republicans act he probably would have gained votes.
This might be where his insistence on denying everything finally backfires on him. Because if he didn’t deny that it happened, the Prosecution would not have needed to bring Daniels onto the stand. While the act itself is not a crime, his insistence on having his lawyers deny it, in the face of graphic evidence, will serve to convince the jury that he is a liar, and make them less likely to find his other explanations credible.
Hung Jury in about 4 days. Juror 2 was a plant.
Source?
Juror 2 is an investment banker that gets all his news from Twitter and Truth Social. I don’t know how they let him sit in on this one.
… Source?
The NYT ran an article about jurors answers to the questionaire
Hearing the evidence must have been a real shock to their bubble.
From this article it sounds like that’s not all his news sources and the Truth stuff was through a repost bot. He also said he followed Michael Cohen.
Second juror: ‘I’ll try to keep an open mind’ The second juror is a married man who works in investment banking.
His hobbies include hiking, music and concerts, and he said he reads “basically everything” — including Trump’s Truth Social posts through an account that reposts them on the social platform X.
The man also said he follows Michael Cohen, Trump’s ex-fixer who made the hush money payment at the center of the case, on X, but he assured Trump’s attorney he would be able to put aside any opinions about Cohen.
“I’ll try to keep an open mind,” the man told prosecutors during questioning.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4612102-meet-trump-hush-money-criminal-trial-jury/
Sus for sure, but he’s not actually on Truth. Seems like an extremely risky juror though. Kind of odd that he says he reads “basically everything”, but apparently only if it’s posted on Twitter, and only Truth deserved mention in the media consumption questionnaire.
“Reads everything” sound like someone who’s “rejected MSM”. As soon as some actually uses MSM in communication I know I can check out of that conversation and they’ve detached from reality.
