Donald Trump didn't testify at the end of his Manhattan criminal trial, despite teasing multiple times that he would do so. When asked about this discrepancy outside the courtroom, eldest Trump son Donald Trump Jr. told MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard the prosecution was a "sham" to begin with. Trump is on ...
        • 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
          23·
          6 months ago

          Not only that, but if any of them are on any kind of social media AT ALL or hell even listen to the radio or watch TV it seems like it would be damn near impossible to avoid a random headline here and there. This trial has been covered ad nauseam by both US-based and international news outlets. Hell on a Windows PC if you open up Bing with the default settings you get a news page in your face.

          • Echo Dot
            101·
            6 months ago

            if you open up Bing with the default settings you get a news page in your face.

            Let’s try to keep things in the bounds of plausibility here…

      • BertramDitore@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

        They’re not sequestered. If they were, they’d be stuck in a hotel somewhere without internet access. It’s super rare, but you’d think this case of all cases would qualify for that level of isolation. There’s probably a good reason not to, I mean imagine the logistics for the 12 jurors and all the alternates (6, I think). Most people can’t just disappear from their lives for a month. That said, it’s a Manhattan jury, so they know this fool regardless.

    • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      6 months ago

      By the letter and spirit of the law they can’t have read about it because the Judge said not to, and so there CAN’T be tampering charges, right? Right??