{"id":61040,"date":"2024-04-16T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61040"},"modified":"2024-04-16T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:38:57","slug":"fox-news-totally-flubs-i-e-lies-about-how-jury-biases-would-impact-trumps-hush-money-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61040","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Totally Flubs (i.e. Lies) About How Jury Biases Would Impact Trump&#8217;s Hush Money Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday jury selection began for the first ever criminal trial of a former American president. It&#8217;s only the beginning of Donald Trump&#8217;s legal tribulations as there are three more criminal trials gearing up that could make him the first ever former president felon. The so-called <em>&#8220;Hush Money&#8221;<\/em> case &#8211; which could more accurately be called the <em>&#8220;Election Interference&#8221;<\/em> case &#8211; is just the first one out of the gate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Totally Flubs (i.e. Lies) About How Jury Biases Would Impact Trump's Hush Money Trial%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61040\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-constitution.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Constitution\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49778\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump has been spending these days whining pitifully that he is a poor beleaguered victim of a corrupt judicial system that he says is determined to destroy him. Never mind that he is the cause of his troubles due to his relentless criminal activities and behavior that exhibits a consciousness of guilt. He even issues public confessions admitting that he has done what he&#8217;s accused of, but claiming that he&#8217;s allowed to under an imaginary doctrine of <em>&#8220;presidential Immunity.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=59715\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felonious Punk Trump Demands \u2018TOTAL IMMUNITY\u2019 \u2013 Even for Acts that \u2018CROSS THE LINE\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jury selection in high profile cases like these are always complicated as attorneys on both sides seek to assemble a panel that will not be biased against against their client (the defendant or the state). In this particular case that is even trickier because Trump&#8217;s supporters are fully indoctrinated cult members who can be expected to deceive the court in order get on the jury and save their Dear Leader from clutches of justice.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Fox News is contributing to the problem by disparaging the court and encouraging misbehavior by prospective Trump jurors. Fox News contributor Clay Travis actually suborned perjury by advising potential jurors to <em>&#8220;do whatever you can to get seated&#8221;<\/em> on the jury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clay Travis: &quot;Do everything you can to get seated on the jury.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>This Trump-fluffer is suborning perjury by prospective jurors. If they take his advice they will land in jail &#8211; along with Trump and Travis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VL6GyvOk46\">https:\/\/t.co\/VL6GyvOk46<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1779929867372708069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just for starters. Fox News also interviewed law professor and Trump toady, John Yoo, who gave an utterly bizarre analysis of the jury selection process, saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty extraordinary in the very first jury pool, before you interview anybody, half of the jury pool already says that they&#8217;re so biased against President Trump that they can&#8217;t serve on the jury&#8230;That&#8217;s only going to feed into, I think, Donald Trump&#8217;s claim that the public integrity of court&#8217;s and the prosecutors is to be questioned as biased and unfair against them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Law Professor John Yoo: \u201cIt&#39;s pretty extraordinary&#8230;half of the jury pool already says that they&#39;re so biased against President Trump that they can&#39;t serve on the jury\u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iGPPA4o1kf\">pic.twitter.com\/iGPPA4o1kf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpDailyPosts\/status\/1780039241776664868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, it is a flagrant lie that half of the jury was dismissed because they were biased against Trump. The truth is that prospective jurors completed a questionnaire that asked several questions to ascertain whether they had <em>&#8220;any&#8221;<\/em> strong opinions about, or association with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>One question specifically asked, <em>&#8220;Is there any reason, whether it be a bias or something else, that would prevent you from being fair and impartial if you are selected as a juror for this case?&#8221;<\/em> Judge Merchan also asked for a show of hands of those who believed that they could not be fair and impartial. Those who raised their hands or otherwise indicated an inability to be impartial were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Note that none of these inquiries indicated whether a bias was in favor of or against Trump. Just whether any bias existed either way. So, contrary to Woo&#8217;s analysis, it is just as likely that supporters of Trump were dismissed for bias as opponents.<\/p>\n<p>But Yoo&#8217;s analysis was also flawed logically, in that he asserted that dismissing those who were biased against Trump would disadvantage him. What? Quite obviously the opposite is true. If only people who were biased against Trump were dismissed, leaving him with a jury comprised of his supporters, that would be an enormous advantage for him.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the efforts of the court to ensure a fair trial, Trump and Fox News keep whining that Trump can\u2019t get an impartial jury of his peers in New York. They seem to think that <em>&#8220;peers&#8221;<\/em> means political allies. Trump&#8217;s team is fixated on smearing the judicial system, this court, and the jurors. And Trump&#8217;s press secretary made that clear in an appearance on Newsmax Tuesday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump&#39;s press secretary and the Newsmax host say they have never met anyone in New York who isn&#39;t biased against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>REALLY? That would include everyone at the New York offices of Newsmax, Fox News, etc. Also the 691,000 (23%) of New Yorkers who voted for Trump in 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nXMRrO4cOL\">https:\/\/t.co\/nXMRrO4cOL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1780294786509087190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it. The Trump team is already convinced that they are going to lose. so they are pulling out all the stops to demean the courts and dismiss the findings of the jury. But they are so frightened by their fate that they have lost all ability to make coherent arguments. So sad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61029\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHUT? 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It&#8217;s only the beginning of Donald Trump&#8217;s legal tribulations as there are three more criminal trials gearing up that could make him the first ever former president felon. The so-called &#8220;Hush Money&#8221; case &#8211; which could more accurately be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1201,684,8,16],"tags":[554,33,1079,123],"class_list":["post-61040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-justice","category-media-bias","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-john-yoo","tag-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-constitution.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-fSw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61492,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61492","url_meta":{"origin":61040,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Legal Weasel Waffles on Whether Trump Will Testify at His &#8216;Hush Money&#8217; Trial","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/20\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump's criminal trial for falsifying business records and election interference (sometimes known as the \"Hush Money\" case) may be approaching the end as attorneys on both sides begin to wrap up their witness examinations. 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