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Editor’s note: reporting on a possible mistrial.

Judge in NY Trump Case E-mails Both Sides About Juror Conduct (RumormillNews)

“Jurors are not permitted to actually commence deliberations until AFTER the case ends, and they must also not discuss the case with each other – or with outsiders – before the case ends and they are properly instructed on the law.

It now seems that almost ALL the jurors in the Trump trial, broke those two instructions from the court!  After all, how could one Juror tell his cousin “Trump is getting convicted” one day before the conviction actually happened unless they all discussed the case and decided before the case was over?

Judge Merchan sent the following to both sides, via email:

Why has this happened now?

Key Facts (below)

(As reported in Forbes.com)

New York Judge Juan Merchan publicized the Facebook post in a Friday letter to defense attorneys and prosecutors in Trump’s case—quoting it in full: “My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted 🎉 Thank you folks for all your hard work !!!!❤️.” —sparking an immediate outcry from right-wing pundits and lawmakers.

The post was made by a Facebook user identifying as Michael Anderson, who describes himself as “professional s**tposter.”

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, who has heavily criticized Merchan, focused his show on the post, calling it a “very alarming development,” and “has to be cause for a mistrial.”

Fox contributor and former Arkansas Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee, who appeared alongside Hannity in the segment, agreed it “[a]bsolutely has to be” a cause for mistrial,” adding the case “stunk as bad as you thought it could.”

Hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., reposted a report from right-wing outlet Newsmax, arguing the “fix was in from the beginning” and a “sham trial from the beginning,” adding that a guilty verdict “came down from the Deep State and ‘the Big Guy,” seeming to reference President Joe Biden (Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that Biden worked with New York prosecutors to bring charges).

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., another Trump ally, also posted, claiming Trump “didn’t get a fair trial” and that the “jury was precooked.”

In a post on his social media site Truth Social, Trump decried the letter, writing simply: “MISTRIAL!”

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13 COMMENTS

  1. All for show folks – enjoy it while it lasts before we all have to knuckle down to learn about how this world was made to be a debt slave prison for the benefit of a few, some who were not even Human.

    And there is a hell of a lot to learn.

    Boom day tomorrow – Saudi Arabia will no longer sell its commodity (oil) in U.S. inc dollars – Boom!

    Just another marker to where we are all headed.

    I hope you are all prepared.

  2. Standard procedure would be that the “Convicted Felon” line gets maximum coverage in the M$M for a week and then the re-trial date is procrastinated until after the election.
    Some call it theatre but if people could actually lie their heads off, and liars could have their pants spontaneously catch on fire, the Global media-politics scene would resemble something more like a Hieronymus Bosch vision of hell.

  3. So some trivial facebook remark was used in order to side-step the multiple judicial fouls listed here:

    “Many commentators have pointed out at length the flaws in how this case was handled. This ranges from ‘flagrant violations’ by the prosecution during the trial to bizarre rulings from the judge, including blocking a witness who could have exonerated Trump from the charge of federal election violation. Even the very premise of the case – that categorising hush-money payments to his lawyer as ‘legal expenses’ was not only illegal, but also a felony – was patently absurd. The act of falsifying business records is itself usually just a misdemeanour, and was outside the statute of limitations anyway. But this was transformed into a more serious felony charge with some legal jiggery-pokery.

    This case was so obviously political that even a blind toddler could see it. The daughter of the presiding judge, New York State Supreme Court justice Juan Merchan, is an executive of a political consulting firm, which counts among its clients some of Trump’s biggest adversaries. That includes Democratic senator Adam Schiff, who led the first impeachment trial against the former president in 2020. According to the New York Post, Democratic politicians who are clients of Merchan’s daughter have even referenced her father’s case in their fundraising emails.”
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/05/31/the-trump-showtrial-has-fooled-no-one/

    Typical

    • Sandra – you and Joe watch everything about Trump just to peddle your own bias against him. It’s theatre alright, but you’re both watching the wrong movie!

      • BTW, trump is not the only player in the game… there are heaps of other pop corns to select and munch on not mentioned or apparently not considered by nasayers or some commentators here, despite being informed.
        For a start think of Dr Zelenco ( rip) and Archbishop Vigano.

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