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issue. but i hear the term presidential present prejudicial. overly prejudicial. the judge needs to balance. the last thing you want is a jury that convicts this person because he s a bad guy so i looked over what the people want to go into on the danger with some of this is that some of it may be considered a little bit too much like what the defendant is charged with in this case and that s another problem. and that s another problem. you don t want the jury to think he has a propensity to do this. is a judge you don t want that, you want to be careful not to establish a pattern of bad acts that are not charged. let me ask you this though. trump said he s going to testify. that s worth as much as i m charging you for it. would you advise a child client under these conditions
the full jury is set. three more sleeps before the trial of donald trump. we are going to have opening statements on monday. this trial is starting. trump is going into monday kicking and screaming. tonight, a last ditch effort to delay is denied. he said sir, we are not finished. sit down, and donald trump was incredibly humbled by that but also peeved. a barrage of rulings from the courthouse, including which prior bad acts can be used at trial. when you show the defendant has bad character, the jury is much more inclined to convict them. then the historic vote in the house marking major defeat for donald trump and vladimir putin. last night after midnight we officially lost control of the house to the democrats. 200 days from election day, america s re-acquaintance with donald trump is going well for
to see it today, you know, turn into this gruesome scene. also, in terms of jurors, i keep finding myself relatedly empathizing with them, just what this would be like, it like a wildly upsetting scene. horrible, but we already heard from jurors about how afraid their names are. you ve got to think like this is the last thing you want them encountering. so, i think the court and law enforcement security are figuring it out as they go on monday, been in that line to get in. the jurors there were like 50 or 60 jurors you could identify who they were because they were all holding their jurors slips, and they were right across the park from loud trump rallies and they are seeing all of this as they are nervously waiting to get inside. i walked in yesterday and i had just come off the elevator and unbeknownst to me i walked into a pool of potential jurors and you know, i had to sit there and wait for them to go through security and not take any photos. they are not sequestered, right?
trump is found guilty. of course that will be a heavy burden for them to carry. a former member of trump s legal team told new york magazine that he expects some jurors will be again to crack under the immense pressure they will be under, particularly if their identities become public. you can see the weight wearing on potential jurors today. two people expressed the situation was already much more stressful than expected. one woman broke down crying saying quote, i have to be honest, i feel so nervous and anxious right now. i m sorry. another was dismissed after telling the court quote, i have really bad anxiety people of found out where i am. of course, this will not be the first high-profile, high profile high stress case. just last week we were talking about the 1995 murder trial of o.j. simpson which is probably, i would hazard, the closest comparison. the trial of trump is in its own stratosphere is the defendant himself. when he was not resting his eyes in the courtroom as he di