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No jury will ever convict Trump, citizen or political (Original Post) mysteryowl Feb 2021 OP
Don't be so sure. Juries have a way of working and complete whack-jobs can be eliminated lettucebe Feb 2021 #1
They're arrogant enough to wear Trump gear to the courthouse lame54 Feb 2021 #9
ha mysteryowl Feb 2021 #25
Have the trial in New York. LisaL Feb 2021 #2
Which is quite possible with business fraud mysteryowl Feb 2021 #4
Or DC. n/t Mr.Bill Feb 2021 #23
Agree!! NY, IL, where he has business holdings would be happy to put him in jail Thekaspervote Feb 2021 #30
Correct. WarGamer Feb 2021 #3
I'll be satisfied Oldem Feb 2021 #5
I don't care about conviction. Initech Feb 2021 #6
He won't be convicted. WarGamer Feb 2021 #13
I doubt his family would be willing to help him in another campaign, nor positions in the WH mysteryowl Feb 2021 #14
IF HE USED HIS PLANE.... THIS WILL HAPPEN TO HIM !!! Eaten by a giant water creature trueblue2007 Feb 2021 #31
lmao... genuinely funny shit. WarGamer Feb 2021 #33
MAGAT jury nullification is a potential factor in any trial that not only involves bullwinkle428 Feb 2021 #7
With the RUMP family, i'd be very concerned about Jury person or persons bluestarone Feb 2021 #8
The jury would have to be sequestered. mysteryowl Feb 2021 #10
AGREE bigtime! bluestarone Feb 2021 #11
Can they do this? mysteryowl Feb 2021 #12
Not sure bluestarone Feb 2021 #15
I'm thinking more of them being too scared PatSeg Feb 2021 #32
A DC jury would be great crazylikafox Feb 2021 #16
District of Columbia jury? Trump got 5.4% of the vote Cicada Feb 2021 #17
Yes, and all it would take is one trump cult member mysteryowl Feb 2021 #19
Many Trump voters would be honest jurors Cicada Feb 2021 #29
It should be innominate (anonymous) juries. gulliver Feb 2021 #18
Good idea, plus sequestered. mysteryowl Feb 2021 #21
Maybe not, but he's going to spend the rest of his natural life Mike 03 Feb 2021 #20
True. mysteryowl Feb 2021 #22
Washington DC. Turin_C3PO Feb 2021 #24
But would trump's lawyers allow a DC trial? mysteryowl Feb 2021 #26
I'm sure they would try and get venue changed. Turin_C3PO Feb 2021 #27
Wouldn't it be something for Trump to be on a citizen jury trial. mysteryowl Feb 2021 #28
This is why him paying in terms of public opinion and financially is imporant JI7 Feb 2021 #34

lettucebe

(2,336 posts)
1. Don't be so sure. Juries have a way of working and complete whack-jobs can be eliminated
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:23 PM
Feb 2021

during jury selection. It's not hard to look up potential jurors online presence, in real time, so no doubt that'd be employed.

WarGamer

(12,440 posts)
3. Correct.
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:25 PM
Feb 2021

Just imagine the not-guilty pleas from the insurrectionists.

Change of venue requests, Jury screening... voir dire is going to be killer. There might be juries of 6 Trumpists...

Oldem

(833 posts)
5. I'll be satisfied
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:27 PM
Feb 2021

just to see SDNY and the NY Attorney General dismantle the Trump Organization. And I'm not so sure a NY jury wouldn't convict him of money-laundering, fraud, or some such financial crime. He'll fund raise from his simpleton supporters; he'll be forced to because he'll be in such financial trouble. Nobody else--no bank, for instance--will lend him a dime.

Initech

(100,068 posts)
6. I don't care about conviction.
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:28 PM
Feb 2021

I just want whatever it will take to keep him from running again in 2024. If we can stop him there, we can stop him for good.

WarGamer

(12,440 posts)
13. He won't be convicted.
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:39 PM
Feb 2021

But I don't think he'll run.

Here's what he will probably do:

After Senate trial, he will announce a MAGA2024 PAC to start fundraising. He will get the 757 back in the air and do rallies and such things. He will be "King Maker" for candidates. He will focus on revenge for those who "wronged" him.

His cohorts will take down probably 7 or 8 out of the 10 House members, a few Governors and eventually a few Senators.

2023 rolls around and Trump will decline to run and get 100% behind a protégé citing the "long list of accomplishments" and such nonsense.

It'll be Haley, Noem... someone like that, certainly Female.

mysteryowl

(7,383 posts)
14. I doubt his family would be willing to help him in another campaign, nor positions in the WH
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:49 PM
Feb 2021

They must all be exhausted by his BS.

trueblue2007

(17,217 posts)
31. IF HE USED HIS PLANE.... THIS WILL HAPPEN TO HIM !!! Eaten by a giant water creature
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 04:18 PM
Feb 2021




can't get enough of it ...

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
7. MAGAT jury nullification is a potential factor in any trial that not only involves
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:29 PM
Feb 2021

Chump, or any member of his family or inner circle, but could very well play a role in any of the trials of his shit-bag insurrectionists, whenever their cases actually come to court.

PatSeg

(47,419 posts)
32. I'm thinking more of them being too scared
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 04:30 PM
Feb 2021

to deliver a "guilty" verdict. The MAGA crowd is very threatening.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
29. Many Trump voters would be honest jurors
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 03:36 PM
Feb 2021

I love Obama but would vote guilty if the evidence proved guilt, I think. I bet a lot of Trump voters would too. Here is a question for jury selection which identifies a Trump voter with high accuracy. True or false, blacks would do as well as whites if they worked harder.

That is a question on a little “racial resentment” survey that predicts accurately and better than anything else whether someone votes for Trump. https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study

gulliver

(13,180 posts)
18. It should be innominate (anonymous) juries.
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 02:58 PM
Feb 2021

To prevent social pressure and threats from the Trump cult.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
20. Maybe not, but he's going to spend the rest of his natural life
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 03:03 PM
Feb 2021

tied up in legal cases and various court proceedings--civil and perhaps criminal--providing depositions, sweating it out, hemorrhaging money and paying hand over fist for attorney fees, and that is a small comfort.

Turin_C3PO

(13,979 posts)
24. Washington DC.
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 03:07 PM
Feb 2021

Only 5% voted Trump. Manhattan only 12% voted Trump. There could easily be a jury there that convicts him. In my experience, even the Trump voters there aren’t necessarily cult types. They might be fair on a jury.

mysteryowl

(7,383 posts)
28. Wouldn't it be something for Trump to be on a citizen jury trial.
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 03:19 PM
Feb 2021

Hopefully, it would be a criminal trial.

JI7

(89,248 posts)
34. This is why him paying in terms of public opinion and financially is imporant
Sat Feb 6, 2021, 09:00 PM
Feb 2021

We are able to influence things through there.

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