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:
"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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Con't
"After weighing the matter, Merchan concluded that while the matter of B430 was not the same as his dismissal of a juror on Tuesday for posting “Lock him up,” he had come to the same conclusion. “This is a close call. I could easily find that she is quite credible,” he said. “[But] I don’t believe we should take a chance with this juror.” The judge dismissed her for cause."
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Con't
"Trump didn’t do as well with Juror B500, a Black woman employed by an apparel company, who told the court that she didn’t have strong opinions about Trump and was sure she could be impartial but added, “I don't like his persona— how he presents himself in public.He is selfish,self-serving and I don’t like him. He’s not my cup of tea” She qualified that with, “I don’t like some of my coworkers, but I don’t try to sabotage their work,” which got some laughs."
7/End
https://open.substack.com/pub/oldgoats/p/day-three-we-have-a-jury
Last one, promise! There was a debate about B500 could be impartial. Marchan decided she could:
"B500 was seated as Juror 11."
8/ Truly THE END
It is so incredibly satisfying to read some prospective jurors are telling this clown to his face what they think of him, you have to love NYC-ers for that, there are some courageous tough people who are who they are, and minus zero fucks, even to Trump's face and he has to be quiet, respectful, and fckin listen. Like the felon that he is..
FINALLY!
@TheAbbotTrithemius Trump's ethics are not "his personal business." When he became a public figure & especially a politician, Trump's ethics became everybody's business.
Indeed, I agree. But I bet that's what got her seated as Juror 11. She knows what she's doing I think.
HE is fucked.
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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