Opening statements begin on monday. And according to the judge, quote, this trial is starting. So long we have been using the word erosion on trumps institutions and americas faith in them f. This weeks spectacle showed us any, the term erosion the flow of water, slow and steady, might be under stating the immediate danger. We should think of the harm done to the structure of our democracy like a tidal wave, Flash Flooding possible. Try as we might to board up the windows to be kept from being swept away there is damage more and more every second. Some jurors so frightened or intimidated from doing their basic civic duty that some were moved to tears in the courthouse as they were today for fear of retaliation. You can see it in the way the disgraced president lies in the case and the way everyone is in if. He conditioned his followers to Distrust Anything and everything outside the sealed mega bubble. The Executive Director of protect democracy described it to us like this. I think pe
Client, that will be the last time we grant you that courtesy. Nicole . That is fascinating. It has not started yet and the prosecutors are already giving them, attorneys eyes only information because this trial needs to be protected from the defendant himself. Take me inside what the final day of jury selection, they were sleeking the final alternates today. I know today is Taylor Swift day and i am a huge swiftie but the theme of today if we had to put it in a song is David Bowie and queens Under Pressure you saw juror upon juror, or Perspective Juror upon Juror Crack and show their nervousness in participating in this proceeding. We had a young woman who said that her father was friends with a, lets call him a big nemesis of the former president and eventually when she was questioned about her ability to