2024-04-16 12:44:31
Trump at the opening of another trial in New York state (photo: shutterstock)
More than half of the citizens invited by the court to serve as potential jurors in Trump’s trial disqualified themselves already at the opening of the hearing that took place last night (Monday).
Indeed, of the 96 New Yorkers invited by the court to run for the important job, 50 were disqualified after admitting that they were not impartial about President Trump, for better or for better.
Nine more were disqualified for other reasons, leaving only 37 invitees, from which the court will have to select twelve New Yorkers to hear Trump’s case.
“I just couldn’t do it,” said one potential juror in the hallway outside the courtroom.
The remaining jurors will now be forced to fill out a questionnaire about their media consumption, where they live, whether they are relatives or friends of Trump, and whether they have ever volunteered for the candidate’s campaign, for example.
The social networks of the candidates will also be examined with the aim of finding people as unbiased as possible, so that their political positions do not affect the course of the trial.
“You really don’t want jurors who bring anything to the table, other than the fact that they have a general understanding that Trump was the president,” Joshua Naftalis, a former federal prosecutor in New York, previously told Axios.
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