Lawyers for former President Donald Trump exposed social media posts from a potential juror on Tuesday.
Trump appeared in Manhattan court on Tuesday for the second day of his criminal trial for alleged hush money payments made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. The first two days have been focused on jury selection, after many were asked to complete a questionnaire with questions asking about their political beliefs.
Matthew Russell Lee of the Inner City Press detailed a conversation on X, formerly Twitter, between Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, and New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case.
“Trump’s lawyer Blanche: There are a number of the jurors that we have social media posts for very much contrary to what they said. We don’t want to confront them openly,” Russell Lee wrote on X.
In another post, Russell Lee explained that Blanche brought up a Facebook post from a potential juror.
“When the juror was asked for her opinion of President Trump, she said nothing. But when he lost the election, they celebrated on Facebook – they got in the car and spread the honking cheer.”
Newsweek reached out to Trump’s spokesperson via email for comment.
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The Context
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump in April 2023, accusing the former president of “fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”
The former president has continued to deny any wrongdoing in the case and was previously placed under a gag order after criticizing Merchan’s daughter.
This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.
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