Imagine it ’s your first time ever being holler for panel responsibility … and it ’s Donald Trump ’s criminal test .
For those who need a recapitulation : charge brought against Trump — of which there are34 count of falsifying business enterprise records — relate to a $ 130,000 payment that Trump ’s former lawyer Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels to allegedly " secrecy claims [ Trump ] had an adulterous social function with grownup film champion Stormy Daniels , " HuffPostreports . For his part , Trump has denied the affair , and heclaimsprosecutors are politically motivated .
Opening statements kicked off this morning, and as the judge, lawyers, Trump, and witnesses filed into the courtroom, clips of dismissed jurors started going viral.
Onevideomaking the rounds came from an MSNBC reporter who asked a dismissed juror about the moment they realized they had potentially been called to sit in on Trump’s trial, as well as their experience with the selection process.
The dismissed juror shared: “We were here on Tuesday from 9 a.m., but we realized that it’s about this case at 4 p.m. We went into the courtroom, and we saw Donald Trump. I was shocked.”
" I was sit [ in the ] 2d row , six foot away . And when I realise that Trump is there , I was like , ' Oh wow . ' I could n’t believe it … Everybody was shocked . Everybody was frozen . "
The reporter went on to ask what their impression of Trump was, and the first thing out of the dismissed juror’s mouth is…
…“He looked less orange.”
“He doesn’t look angry,” they continued. “I think he looks bored. Like, he wants this to finish and go do his stuff.”
Ironically, they may be on to something with that “bored” comment, because several reporters in the courtroom shared thatTrump appeared to nod off several times.
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Regardless, this was the dismissed juror’s first time ever being called for jury duty becausethey said they became a citizen less than a year ago.And what a trial to be called for!
