[ April 30, 2024 ]
‘Who did you vote for?’ is not one of them.
Trump must attend the trial every day because this is a criminal case in New York’s kangaroo court. This lengthy trial will keep Trump off the campaign trail. This is by design.
Keep in mind that this Kafkaesque trial is based entirely on lies:
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Stormy Daniels: I Didn’t Have Sex With Trump
Star witness Michael Cohen lied repeatedly to save his own ass.
The jury pool in Manhattan comes from a group of people who voted 85% against Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
On top of that, you have biased Democrat Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan who donated to Biden in 2020 along with another anti-Trump cause, and his adult daughter is… pic.twitter.com/CKIYrJfqkn
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 15, 2024
*Actually CNN just said 87% voted for Biden & Dems. Only 11% voted for Trump in Manhattan.
Can't call this a fair #jury pool if you're being honest. 100% of potential jurors know Trump (not normal) & have an opinion of him, so it will be very difficult for them to be impartial.
— Jeff from Jersey (@JefffromJersey1) April 15, 2024
This is insanity https://t.co/lQPHIvbPv1
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) April 15, 2024
New York Judge Merchan to Trump: "If you do not show up, there will be an arrest."
During peak election season, Trump will be forced to appear in court every day.
To be clear this is infinitely worse election interference than anything that the MSM accused Russia/Putin of…
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 15, 2024
Potential Trump hush money trial jurors being asked 42 questions
On Monday, former President Trump made history as the 1st former president to stand trial on criminal charges
By Lawrence Richard, Maria Paronich Fox News, April 15, 2024:
HAPPENING NOW: Jury selection begins in Trump hush money trial
The jury selection for former President Donald Trump’s trial centered on hush money payments to Stormy Daniels officially got underway in New York City on Monday, with lawyers for Trump and the state meeting with prospective jurors to decide who will sit to hear the case.
Judge Juan Merchan is overseeing the case in which Trump has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree during his successful 2016 presidential campaign. The dozen ultimately selected will become the first Americans ever to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime.
The jury selection procedure is simple. Each potential juror is seated in the jury box and will be asked to answer 42 questions from a questionnaire that reviews the individual’s work history, political affiliations and what media they choose to watch and listen to.
The prospective jurors must be Manhattan residents. They are then asked each question, and are instructed to answer “one after the other, in a loud clear voice,” according to the court’s instructions. They may potentially be asked additional follow-up questions, as needed, depending on their answer.
Former President Trump, the 77-year-old presumptive Republican nominee, goes to court Monday as the first former U.S. president ever to be criminally prosecuted, a seismic moment for the United States as he campaigns to re-take the White House. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
The 42 questions on the questionnaire include:
1. A. Without telling us your address, in what neighborhood do you live? For example, Upper East Side, Lower West Side, Inwood, etc.
B. How long have you lived there?
C. Are you a native New Yorker? If not, where did you live previously?
2. A. What do you do for a living?
B. How long have you been doing that?
C. If you are retired, please tell us what you did before you retired.
3. A. Who is your current employer?
B. How large is your current employer?
C. Are you self-employed or own your own business?
D. Who was your prior employer?
4. What is your educational background? For example, high school diploma, college degree, graduate degree, etc.
5. A. Are you married?
B. Have you ever been married?
C. Do you have any children?
6. A. If you are married, or living with another adult, what does that person do for a living?
B. If you have adult children, what do they do?
7. A. What do you like to do in your spare time?
B. Do you have any interests or hobbies?
8. A. Do you participate in any organizations or advocacy groups?
B. Which ones?
9. A. Have you ever served on a jury before? If you did, please tell us how long ago that was and whether that was in Criminal Court, Civil Court, or Grand Jury.
B. Without telling us the verdict, please tell us whether the jury reached a verdict.
10. Which of the following print publications, cable and or network programs, or online media such as websites, blogs, or social media platforms do you visit, read, or watch?
The juror is then asked to check through various mainstream news platforms such as Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and others. They are also instructed to check through a list of social media platforms, including Facebook, X, TikTok and others.
11. Do you listen to or watch podcasts? If so, which ones?
12. Do you listen to talk radio? If so, which programs?
13. Have you, a relative, or a close friend ever been the victim of a crime? If so, please briefly tell us what happened?
14. Have you, a relative, or a close friend ever been employed by a law enforcement agency? For example, the police, FBI, District Attorney’s Office, Department of Correction, etc.
15. Have you, a relative, or a close friend ever been employed by a federal, state, or local government, including but not limited to the State of New York?
16. Have you, a relative, or close friend ever been employed in the accounting or finance field?
17. Have you, a relative or close friend ever had any education, training, or work experience in the legal field, including but not limited to practicing criminal or civil law?
18. A. Have you, a relative, or close friend had any experience or interaction with the criminal justice system, including a police officer or other type of law enforcement agent, which caused you to form an opinion, whether positive or negative, about the police or our criminal justice system?
B. If so, what was that experience?
C. Would that experience prevent you from being a fair and impartial juror in this case?
19. Have you, a relative, or a close friend ever been accused or convicted of committing a crime?
20. Do you, a relative, or a close friend have a pending criminal case?
Trump TowerA view of Trump Tower before former President Trump departs for Manhattan Criminal Court, to attend the first day of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs in New York City on April 15, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
21. A. Do you have any political, moral, intellectual, or religious beliefs or opinions which might prevent you from following the Court’s instructions on the law or which might slant your approach to this case?
B. Do you have any political, moral, intellectual or religious beliefs or opinions that would interfere with your ability to render a verdict in this criminal case?
22. Do you have a health condition that might interfere with your ability to be here on the appointed days and times or otherwise prevent you from serving as a juror?
23. Without telling us the name(s), do you take any medication that would prevent you from being able to concentrate or pay attention during the proceedings or during the deliberations?
24. Court proceedings normally end around 4:30 in the afternoon though on rare occasions, we might work beyond that. Would your schedule and responsibilities permit you to work later if it were absolutely necessary to complete that day’s work?
25. Do you practice a religion that would prevent you from sitting as a juror on any particular weekday or weeknight?
26. Can you give us an assurance that you will be fair and impartial and not base your decision in this case upon a bias or prejudice in favor of or against a person who may appear in this trial, on account of that person’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, religious practice, age, disability, sexual orientation or political views?
27. Can you promise to guard against allowing stereotypes or attitudes about individuals or about groups of people, referred to as an implicit bias, influence your decision?
28. Have you, a relative, or a close friend ever worked for any company or organization that is owned or run by Donald Trump or anyone in his family?
29. A. Have you, a relative, or a close friend ever worked or volunteered for a Trump presidential campaign, the Trump presidential administration, or any other political entity affiliated with Mr. Trump?
B. Have you ever attended a rally or campaign event for Donald Trump?
C. Are you signed up for or have you ever been signed up for, subscribed to, or followed any newsletter or email listserv run by or on behalf of Mr. Trump or the Trump Organization?
D. Do you currently follow Donald Trump on any social media site or have you done so in the past?
E. Have you, a relative, or a close friend ever worked or volunteered for any anti-Trump group or organization?
F. Have you ever attended a rally or campaign event for any anti-Trump group or organization?
G. Are you signed up for or have you ever been signed up for, subscribed to, or followed any newsletter or email listserv run by or on behalf of any anti-Trump group or organization?
H. Do you currently follow any anti-Trump group or organization on any social media site, or have you done so in the past?
30. Have you ever considered yourself a supporter of or belonged to any of the following:
– the QAnon movement
– Proud Boys
– Oathkeepers
– Three Percenters
– Boogaloo Boys
– Antifa
31. Do you have any strong opinions or firmly held beliefs about whether a former president may be criminally charged in state court?
32. Do you have any feelings of opinions about how Mr. Trump is being treated in this case?
33. Can you give us your assurance that you will decide this case solely on the evidence you see and hear in this courtroom and the law as the judge gives it?
34. Do you have any strong opinions or firmly held beliefs about former President Donald Trump, or the fact that he is a current candidate for president that would interfere with your ability to be a fair and impartial juror?
35. Have you read (or listened to audio) of any of the following books or podcasts by Michael Cohen or Mark Pomerantz? If so, please let us know if what you have heard or read affects your ability to be a fair and impartial juror in this case.
Disloyal: A Memoir (2020)
Mea Culpa (the podcast)
Revenge (2022)
People Vs. Donald Trump (2023)36. The defendant in this case has written a number of books. Have you read (or listened to audio) of anyone or more of those books? If so, which ones?
37. Do you have any opinions about the legal limits governing political contributions?
Judge Merchan poses for photoJudge Juan Merchan poses for a picture in his chambers, Thursday, March 14, 2024, in New York. A dozen Manhattan residents are soon to become the first Americans ever to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime. Jury selection is set to start Monday in former President Trump’s hush money trial. (AP Photos)
38. Can you promise to set aside anything you may have heard or read about this case and render your verdict based solely on the evidence presented in this courtroom and the law as given to you by the judge?
39. Can you give us your absolute assurance that you will refrain from discussing this case with anyone in any manner and from watching, reading, or listening to any accounts of this case during the pendency of the trial?
40. Can you assure us that you will follow the judge’s instructions on the law, including instructions on the definition of reasonable doubt and the presumption of innocence?
41. The United States Constitution provides that a defendant has no burden to introduce any evidence or to testify in a criminal case. If Mr. Trump chooses not to testify or to introduce any evidence, can you give us your assurance that you will not hold that against him?
42. Is there any reason, whether it be a bias or something else, that would prevent you from being fair and impartial if you are selected as a juror for this case?
Trump is the first former president ever to be criminally prosecuted.
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16 Comments
14 days ago
We The People could end this BS any time we set our minds to it.
If one treasonous judge can f**** the whole nation then we’re dead.
D
14 days ago
Reply to
Zeus
The problem is that there are too many Americans that are members of the largest religious cult in America. You know it as the Democratic Party. It literally is a religious cult. Most of the cult members never question the cult leaders.
Where many of the American Founders embraced Biblical principles those cult members only embrace Democratic Party principles. Supporting the Democrat Cult they fully embrace what Clinton Roosevelt advocated in his 1841 book. Look at the policies the Democrat Cult has authored and advocated.
Which party has advocated these things??
1. Abolition of private property
2. Heavy progressive income tax
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels
5. Creation of a Central Bank
6. Government control of Communications & Transportation
7. Government ownership of factories and agriculture
8. Government control of labor
9. Corporate farms, regional planning
10. Government control of education
11. Abolition of religion
12. Abolition of the family as basic social unit
With help of the cult members the USA may soon be the USSSA, Union of Soviet Socialist states of Amarxica.
Those cult members will not like the end game. It’s a bit like buying a Ferrari and finding you just got a Model T.
12 days ago
Reply to
Tesla_rules
Except they have no religion. They are true decuples of Satan. “So, help me God.” Obummer is the perfect real to life Manchurian Candidate.
14 days ago
The United States is in serious trouble from the actions of the evil and wicked Democrat-Socialist party that has weaponized the judicial system against former president Donald Trump. It is so obvious that the Democrat-Socialist party is carrying out the statement that was made by Joe Biden and other persons that said “Donald Trump will never be president again”. The Democrat-Socialist party will likely stop at nothing to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president and that includes assassinating Donald Trump.
D
14 days ago
Reply to
David Grisez
Part of the problem is the churches and synagogues in America. They do not preach the full counsel of God. Too many getting a soft Gospel message are really members of the religious cult known as the Democratic Party.
D
14 days ago
FJB LGB FJM!!!!!!!
D
14 days ago
Eugene V Debbs,,,
14 days ago
Goodness me! With a list of questions like that no wonder it takes so long to assemble a Grand Jury in America! I presume we can expect the trial to commence sometime in the next century; it’s likely to take that long to find sufficient housebound, brain dead zombies!
Last edited 14 days ago by Sebastian Tombs
13 days ago
Reply to
Sebastian Tombs
This is not a Grand Jury. GJs are convened before a trial by the prosecutor to determine if there is enough evidence to hold a trial and return a guilty verdict.
This is the selection of the criminal trial jury that will hear direct evidence presented by the prosecutor to determine whether or not the defendant is guilty as charged.
14 days ago
I hope all this backfires for Trump and his ratings go up!
14 days ago
Yep!
Just another “Dog & Pony Show”.
I really hope that Merchan gets what is due.
12 days ago
Reply to
Grendel
He isn’t the only Judge. I am a firm believer in Karma and what goes around will come around.
14 days ago
Kangaroo Court’s Kangaroo Court hellish…biased against…..leftist politically based questions…! Remember, President Trump (the REAL President) always says: “They are not coming after me…They are coming after you..!!” The only thing they haven’t done yet to President Trump is wack him..!! The Demoncraps will do anything and everything in order to gain and hold power…..including wacking people..!! God Bless President Trump….God Bless America..!! He should go to his son’s graduation and let them arrest him and then post bail in order to continue his campaign…!! Or tell them he has Covid (another SCAM) and can’t come to court…!!
12 days ago
I don’t see a problem, do you ? Tell me again what country I was born, raised and educated in.
