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Sounds like he's a bit of a ... Snowflake lmao

Haha. He's still complaining about Kimmel?

That moron doesn't even realize his complaints cause more people to tune into Kimmel to see Kimmel make fun of him every night.

And I hope Kimmel brings this up tonight.

As per his own words, he's a whiner cause he'll do it till it wins. Unsure how well that works in criminal court though. I'm hoping we get to find out the court's limits sooner than later

If you can't do the mild inconvenience, don't do the crime.

Complained the looseys cost too much.

Trump always complains when he has to follow the rules. Doesn't matter what the rule is, he always wants to be the exception.

It probably comes from the decades of experience he has in not having to follow the rules.

I'd happily do it. I'm not a us citizen, though.

They pay $15 a day where I live. I expect they will get similar lol

If you threaten the family members of a federal judge a few dozen more times we will slowly start to count down from 5.

I was pretty chuffed about that $1000 ask, but it turns out that that's the maximum fine allowed for contempt of court in a criminal trial in New York.

Beyond that, there's either exclusion from the courtroom (and no judge wants to exclude a defendant from the courtroom) or detention up to thirty days.

That's what happens when the defendant is a polarizing fascist asshole.

No idea why you got downvoted. Nearly everyone will know who he is, since he was the damn President of the country. Nearly everyone will know a lot of stuff about him, since he never fucking shuts up on social media. He has a large percentage of the country who loves him and a larger percentage of people who absolutely hate him. Finally, the case and jury selection is in New York, where he has been in the news for 40 years.

People seem to think that a prior opinion about the dependent automatically means that a potential juror cannot be impartial. All that is required is that the juror can render a verdict based solely on the evidence presented at trial. Plenty of people with strong opinions about Trump himself can still be impartial jurors.

I agree. Trump has done everything possible to spread his propaganda and poison the jury pool.

I am pretty certain jury verdicts have to be unanimous or it's a mistrial, so, yeah, that's a reasonable thing to think

On the plus side this is New York, the city that knows him best. And they fucking hate him.

It's up to the government to decide whether or not they re-try a case if there is a hung jury. It's my understanding that most of the time, they do not re-try the case because of the time and effort involved with no guarantee that the outcome would be any different. So usually a hung jury is a victory for the defense.

I'm not a lawyer, that's just my layman's understanding from the legal stuff I've seen and read.