Via Jonathan Alter’s (covering Turnp’s hush money trial for the NYTimes) “Old Goats” Substack.

Potential Juror B430 wrote in a social media comment from 2016:

“I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if his tongue was notarized,”

She was dismissed (of course), but, I’d say her work is done here….😂 🤣

https://open.substack.com/pub/oldgoats/p/day-three-we-have-a-jury

From above SubStack;

" In 1989, Leonard Stern, the wealthy owner of the Hartz Mountain pet supply company, financed a critical documentary about Trump’s bankruptcies and overall scumminess that I highly recommend for anyone interested in how he hasn’t changed at all. I was Newsweek’s media critic at the time and appeared in the film saying that Trump was not only not the biggest real estate developer in the U.S.,"

Con't

"...as he claimed, but he wasn’t close to being the richest developer in New York. In some versions, there’s also a soundbite of me saying Trump was bull-shitting when he claimed Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev was scheduled to visit him in Trump Tower.
After he saw a rough cut, narrated by Tony Schwartz, his onetime ghostwriter on The Art of the Deal, Trump played his usual hardball, threatening to sue me and other critics"

Con't

"When Guttenplan, then reporting for Newsday, asked the Sterns about Trump’s story, they adamantly denied it. However, they soon settled financially with Trump and, unfortunately, agreed to suppress the documentary before it aired. It didn’t air for 25 years. Guttenplan interviewed Alair Townsend, a former deputy mayor who had handled many negotiations with Trump, and she coined the immortal line about the notarized tongue."

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Con't:

"Back to Juror B430, who went beyond the tongue line in 2016 and posted: “He is anathema to everything I was taught about love and Jesus. He could not be more fundamentally unchristian.” Now, just 12 feet from Trump, she claimed that during Covid, she decided to tone down her commentary and had not insulted him since. “Strong words. I was in a disturbed frame of mind during that election cycle."

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Con't

"“ I do not hold those positions today.” She claimed to be impartial now and told Trump, sitting 12 feet away, “I’m sorry.”

This woman really wanted to serve. “I withdraw the term racist,” she said. “It’s not about me judging him ethically. His ethics are his personal business.”

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