For years, Donald Trump has been insulated from some of the coldest takes about him and his presidency. His Manhattan criminal trial is finally exposing him to some harsh opinions.
for his freedom, staring down the potential of years in jail, and he’s got one big complaint about how it’s going thus far: He’s cold.
An accountant who said he watches Fox News “sometimes” called Trump’s politics “outrageous.” Another prospective juror, a man in the streaming music industry, had an old social media post read out loud that decried Trump’s “egomaniacal, The reality appears to be quite the opposite. Dozens of potential jurors excused themselves, the vast majority citing an admitted inability to be fair. Among the most memorable was an Italian man who said that, after reading so many comparisons between Trump and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi—a media tycoon turned political strongman who was inundated with accusations of corruption for years—he just couldn’t bring himself to look past the similarities.
But then the Scandinavian turned his attention to the GOP’s rightward lurch since Trump took hold of the political party. As she spoke, Trump stared her down without moving—that is, until Susan Necheles, one of Trump’s lawyers, asked whether the woman’s experiences being sexually assaulted on the subway would affect her ability to be fair to a man with his own history of sexual assault accusations.When she said yes, Trump immediately leaned over and whispered in the ear of attorney Todd Blanche.
“He just seems very selfish and self-serving, so I don’t really appreciate that in any public servant,” she said.“I appreciate you sharing and your honesty,” Necheles said. “It sounds to me like you don’t like him, based on the way he presents himself.
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