A potential juror who confessed she couldn't be impartial left Donald Trump's trial at the New York courthouse on Thursday and spoke to MSNBC about what it was like seeing the former president in person.
"You know, he looked less orange, definitely, like, more yellowish, like yellow," she told Yasmin Vossoughian. "He looks — he doesn't look angry or — I think he looks bored. Like, he wants this to finish. And go do his stuff."
She described the moment she entered the courtroom and that all fellow potential jurors froze. When they left the courtroom, she said "everybody" was talking about it
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"It is a historical case, and, you know, this is going to define so many things," she said the dismissed jurors said. "But at the same time, our job as a juror, right, is to be impartial, like to be unbiased. So, it was, yeah, weird, like, the whole atmosphere."
She said that it was clear in her conversations with the other jurors that they felt a sense of "duty."
"I feel a duty, yeah. I'm a citizen," she continued. "I have responsibilities, right? Of course, it is a duty."
Trump was accused of muttering something towards a juror earlier in the selection process, prompting a swift rebuke by the judge. Those comments continued online Wednesday night. Legal analysts characterized it as Trump attempting to intimidate the jurors. The next day, a seated juror successfully asked to be dismissed because of fear she'd been identified.
See the clip of the interview below or at the link here.
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