“My juror”: Trump believed a loyalist on the jury could save him, until the very end

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/31/my-juror-believed-a-loyalist-on-the-jury-could-save-him-until-the-very-end/

34 comments

  1. Well, on top of being a complete waste-of-space asshole, he’s also incredibly stupid.

  2. of course not the evidence. That would kind of be the law and order approach. Nope. It was how the fix was in.

  3. “Trump went so far as to call the jury member “my juror” in private conversations, based on his confidence in his legal team’s analysis of the Manhattan resident’s body language…”

    He has the worst attorneys.

  4. It’s always gamesmanship with Mr Trump. The justice system, electoral system, tax system are all there to be manipulated.

  5. Trump should be shown **zero leniency** at sentencing.  His utter contempt for our judicial system, and disrespect he’s shown to everyone involved in the proceedings, along with his refusal to accept any responsibility for his criminal behavior, has earned him no compassion whatsoever. 

  6. Everything’s always possessive with this toddler. *My* generals. *My* supreme court judges. *My* juror.

    Nuts to that. I am going to do my part to make sure that this criminal never has power over *our* country ever again.

  7. Don’t worry. There’s always the next trial, or the trial after that, or the trial after that….

  8. So Trump did not do anything to present a convincing defense because he was convinced one of the jury would be on his side, he believed that like one believes an article of faith.

    Trump has drank his own cool-aid, he somehow believes that he is incapable of making errors in judgement.

    In short; He lost contact with reality.

  9. Maybe the person saw the evidence and was jolted back into reality. Taken out of their bubble, they gave up the MAGA fantasy and voted appropriately

  10. Kudos to juror number two for putting aside their personal feelings and reaching a verdict based on the facts.

    Edit: changed “his” to “their” bc I obv don’t know their gender.

  11. One juror said he got his news from Truth Social, that’s probably who he was depending on. Guess the facts of the case were too overwhelming to sway them.

  12. Statistically speaking, roughly 25% of the jurors who self-dismissed early in the trial were Trump supporters. The jury could have been made almost entirely of Trump supporters. But they bailed.

  14. That’s an admission of guilt if it requires a dishonorable juror to ignore evidence trying to get him off.

  17. By the way, a “loyalist” is Trumps idea of an unbiased juror

  18. I hope “my juror” was trolling him the entire time to make him think he was on his side.

    That would actually be the best thing ever.

  19. Just like in 12 Angry Men with the guy whose son isn’t living up to his expectations and wants to take it out on the defendant.

    Once “his juror” moved past his or her personal bias and just looked at the facts it was most likely quite cleansing to find him guilty.

  20. My Juror, new product by Mike Lindell. Turns out it’s just a juror, nothing special.

  21. Except to make it on the Jury, that juror would have to shut up about being MAGA for a few weeks. I don’t know about y’all, but I don’t know a Cult level MAGA that can shut the fuck up about politics for longer than half an hour.

    I’m sure the juror was a Trump Voter, maybe even considering themselves MAGA to an extent, but this is exactly why the Right is fumbling its way through Loyalty Tests right now. They want the hardened Cultists.

    If “Trump’s Juror” wasn’t at premium levels of Cultist, they were going to find Trump guilty. There was no way around that. The evidence was too cut and dry.

    A Cultist would never make it on the jury.

  22. I suspect that a Trump leaning juror might have their support wane after avoiding the news for the several weeks. They had to sit through weeks of testimony and evidence.

  23. Imagine believing that loyalty is why you won’t be convicted versus innocence.

  24. Honestly even if there was a loyalist on the jury there’s a good chance they were deprogrammed after spending all that time reviewing data about Trump without OAN or FOX telling them what their opinion of that data is.

  26. guess we found the 1 in 10 Republicans that a conviction had a change of heart on.

  27. Man. Listen, you can and should watch the jury. You should have someone whose job is to sit there and watch the jury, so you can see what’s landing and what’s not. You should not, under any circumstances, ever assume you know what a jury or an individual juror is thinking about the ultimate outcome of the case. You will get fucked 10 out of 10 times.

  28. I’m just glad he was found guilty on ALL counts. I would imagine that he was be claiming “TOTAL EXONERATION!” even if he was found not guilty on one count.

  29. I hope it was Stone responsible for attempting to rat fuck the jury, and i hope he is charged and imprisoned along with Trump for their attempts to destroy the American justice system.

  30. Turns out, no one sane likes him. Womp womp, fat boi.

  31. Martha Stewart went to jail for far less! Trump needs to go to jail!!!

  32. “with some suggesting that a member of the Trump legal team should leak their identities.”

    If any names are leaked and anything happens to any juror, Trump and his legal team are up shit creek.

  34. That’s the craziest part…they just needed one person out of twelve on their side. They couldn’t even do that

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