Before any jurors were seated in Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in New York, defense lawyers seeking to whittle down the pool of prospects asked them a vital question: What do you think of the former president?
“We all know that every one of you knows President Trump,” defense attorney Todd Blanche told the potential jurors last week. “You’re not going to offend me, you’re not going to offend the Court, the People, or even President Trump by really talking about your opinion of President Trump.”
As Trump sat feet away, sandwiched by his lawyers at counsel table, some of the jurors provided frank — and at times scathing — reviews of the former president’s character and presidency.
“President Trump speaks his mind. I would rather that in a person than someone who’s in office and you don’t know what they’re doing behind the scenes,” said a middle school teacher from Harlem.
“Being in my generation during that candidacy, there was a divide in the country; I can’t ignore that,” she said.
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