Several admitted to having read a little bit of trumps book. none of those people made the jury. one of the unfortunate consequences of this part of the jury selection process is that many identifiable details about potential jurors were published by the press, putting the jury s ultimate anonymity at risk. yesterday, one jury, originally juror number two, asked to be excused for this very reason. the judge granted her request and warned of the media to be careful about revealing identifiable information. another potential juror was dismissed today after telling the court she has, really bad anxiety when people have found out where i am. anxiety is completely understandable for a criminal trial of this historic magnitude. there is a heightened level of intensity inside the courtroom and unsigned. donald trump has a history of riling up followers, some of them go on to commit violence and has been checking the judicial process day in and day out, calling it corrupt, and,
His case because he s out of control. and, this judge will not let him sit there and pontificate. he will have to answer questions. and, the judge can just shut them down if he s not following the rules. they shut him down meaning you are on the stand, it s over if he is not following the rules and not answering questions. why? there is a jury there. this is not like the civil fraud case where it was just a judge. there is a jury there and this judge will not allow there to be prejudicial information adding to this jury. talking about following the rules, already some questions about whether donald trump has been following the rules in terms of the things he has been posting. yesterday, the prosecution was, well, the prosecution was supposed to tell the court who they are going to call to the stand on monday. yesterday, the defense asked for the first three witness names. the prosecution said they didn t trust donald trump not to treat those names so they said they will give the defe
Did it go, the jury selection? we got it done inside of a week. it seemed to go with relative haste. this people who were not going to be jurors were dismissed quickly. what was your sense of it as you were sitting there watching it questioning donald trump s opportunity, had the opportunity to go and use their challenges to eliminate several potential jurors they watched. donald trump over the course of the next six, seven weeks will become very familiar with the faces of those 12 jurors and 6 alternates in their. when it comes to donald trump in a courtroom, over the last year, he has become quite familiar with one, not only from the civil fraud trial but we have to go back to the e jean carroll trial in january of 2024. there has been a jury that is heard testimony, granted it was three minutes of testimony from donald trump and they in january determined $87 million penalty in the e jean carroll defamation suit. donald trump has had a new york jury ruled against him but
Now there s a weekend. the hope is the 12 that are seated will still remain strong and say that they can still be fair and impartial. if they are not, there will be six ready to fill in. of course, we hope the six alternates also will still want to be on the jury and can still remain fair and impartial. the judge can and the court can do something about making the jurors feel more secure. a few, i think in this case, which was done in trumps federal trial, the judge should, and it s going to cost money but court officers should be protecting them when they go to lunch, maybe in an undisclosed location as a group, and they should be escorted home in groups. they have to live in manhattan so we are not talking about a long commute. you are not sequestering them. they are not staying at a hotel but you are protecting them during the trial. what, in your opinion, how