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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