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Instructions are finished, jury's about to receive the case for deliberations

Uh... um.

Not be Trump? That's all I gather and I am more informed than the average voter based on my presence on this forum.

This election is going to be very, very bad

Hunter is more likely to be jailed than Trump, so I have no idea what OP is going on about.

Merchan specifies New York State law 17-152 as the election law jurors can consider.

The second Trump wins the election (if he wins, which looks increasingly likely) Netanyahu will withdraw all troops from Gaza. Biden only gave him 99% of what he wanted, and that's not enough for the most pampered, entitled country on the planet.

The fact that supposed moderates like Gantz still haven't pulled their war cabinet support to stop this madness reflects awfully on their character too. This is a very sick society.

I was in preschool when you joined

Per the Independent, Lucy Allan is in talks to stand for Reform in The Wrekin, which neighbours her Telford constituency.

I doubt that Mark Pritchard would be particularly happy about that.

Ed Miliband was visiting the constituency just yesterday (I think).

Fellow 20th anniversary man this year. Do you still call it the Atlas community? I still haven't gotten used to the name change even though it was years ago now (there is that extended period of like four years where I was just over on AAD, mostly because I could swear when I posted without it being censored).

I definitely call it the Atlas Forum for family that know about my involvement here. That is far less confusing when I talk about a meet up with a forum member.

If I am describing it to a new person, I would call it Talk Elections in case they want to join. I would probably have already described its historical relationship to Dave's Atlas. I still use Dave's Atlas when citing election results and that can lead to mention of Talk Elections.

I only oppose this because it would mess up the formation of the borders.

Re: the friendly juror. First of all I really doubt s/he is doing that to **** with the defense. But a friendly juror doesn't mean it's going to hang. Maybe this person starts out with not guilty or I don't know but it doesn't mean they'll be stubborn about it when confronted. Of course s/he might also convince others to come to their side.

Or maybe they're making eye contact to be polite and think he's guilty lol.

I've just been thinking about this question generally, but what if he's actually convicted here? I don't  think anyone's really appreciated that question to the full extent.

It's uncharted territory. But I lean towards a ton of media coverage and outrage on social media, his polls go down 5 points for a few weeks and then bounce back like it didn't happen. I hope it has some lasting effect though, if it happens.

Question is, who is the "friendly juror"? I saw someone tweet (don't have the link but would be appreciated) that one juror looked visibly uninterested and bored during the prosecution's closing. Could it be the same person?

Possibly- but you never know with these things. It's just as possible that the person looked bored b/c they already knew how they were going to decide and just wanted to get it over with. I think Trump team trying to really make something out of nothing just kind of shows how desperate they really are here

Update: I was unaware of this, but apparently one of the jurors said he (or she) gets their news from Truth Social. This came out during voir dire. First off, I'm amazed the prosecution let this guy on the panel, and second, I'd bet good money that is the "friendly juror" we keep hearing about. Possibly the same one who looked bored during closing arguments, though possible it could've been someone who was just tired and wanted to go home.

Bad game of telephone, that one juror's news doesn't come from Truth Social, Juror 2 isn't even on Truth Social, they said "I read basically everything. I follow Truth Social posts from Trump on Twitter. I do follow Michael Cohen, Mueller She Wrote, and some more." Juror 1 watches Fox News in addition to MSNBC & reads both the NYT & DailyMail. No big deal