...with the judge on his side.Judge Juan Merchan has taken the bench and Trump’s trial is now underway. Right off the bat, the judge is addressing Trump’s efforts to get him to recuse himself. Merchan says it's the opinion of the court that Trump is using a "series of inferences, innuendos and unsupported…
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 15, 2024
Familiarity breeds contempt. One week of this, the press will get bored. Six weeks of this, they’ll stop covering it a month earlier. Maybe sooner. Trump hasn’t changed his tune in a year.Are networks going to gift the Trump campaign exactly what they want and cover live all his rants outside the courtroom every day, which are word for word all exactly the same? pic.twitter.com/MGQZNdTJcc
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 15, 2024
Irony alert.🚨 Six weeks of this and that meme is a dead horse.It is. The whole case is about how he illegally interfered with the 2016 election with a bribery and intimidation scheme. pic.twitter.com/KnpoB3HpDb
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 15, 2024x
(Listening to federal prosecutors kibbitz the judge this morning for dealing with pre-trial issues instead of getting in with jury selection. They’re all former federal prosecutors where the judge questions the pool and a jury can be selected in 39 minutes. State courts usually work like this. Whole pools will report for jury duty, sit around all day, and be dismissed when the case settles. Or when all the jurors are picked and the remaining pool is dismissed.
All a matter of what system you’re in. State jurors generally get their royal treatment after they are settled into the courtroom. Before that? Not so much.
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