Representative Byron Donalds pleaded with potential jurors in Trump’s hush-money trial to vote “not guilty.”
The Republican Party is all in on Donald Trump, so much so that at least one representative is trying to sway his legal proceedings.
Ahead of the start of the Republican presidential pick’s first criminal trial on Monday, Representative Byron Donalds pleaded with the people of Manhattan to give his party leader a break.
“My plea is to the people of Manhattan that may sit on this trial: Please do the right thing for this country,” the Florida congressman told Newsmax. “Everybody’s allowed to have their political viewpoints, but the law is supposed to be blind and no respecter of persons. This is a trash case, there is no crime here, and if there is any potential for a verdict, they should vote not guilty.”
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That’s a quality upgrade from “eat a bag of dicks.”
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for addition of “Guzzle my entire septic tank.” to my repertoire of insulting phrases. 😆
The right thing for the country would be a guilty verdict for treason. And then the appropriate punishment.
That’s in one of his other court cases. This is about the one where he paid a prostitute to keep quiet after he paid her for sex.
Actually a good point was made recently that this is not about paying for sex or paying to hush a sex workers as much as it is about illegally using funds to influence election-specific matters. The fact that it’s all focused around a sex worker is just Trump’s specific flavor of illegal campaign finance.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-trials-of-donald-trump-season
Is that not jury tampering?
It doesn’t appear this person actually communicated directly with any jurors on the case; rather, he expressed an opinion about what the jurors should do, while speaking to a fascist propaganda service (Newsmax).
He was clearly at least superficially trying to directly address the potential jurors on a wide reaching platform.
I doubt it’s proscecutable, but he is certainly attempting to taint the jury pool. I wonder if the judge can hold random people not involved in the trial accountable for interfering with the trial from the outside.
As a total lay person, I have no clue what the technical definition of jury tampering is. I looked up NY law:
S 215.25 Tampering with a juror in the first degree. A person is guilty of tampering with a juror in the first degree when, with intent to influence the outcome of an action or proceeding, he communicates with a juror in such action or proceeding, except as authorized by law.
I guess “communicates with” is the key part. He’s shouting publicly at any potential juror and doing so prior to the jury being selected. So I’d guess not in this case?
As a lay person, I agree. If “publishing in the media” is indeed “communicating” (which I see as such), then this guy does at least attempt to tamper jurors.
Are there any penalties involved in that law?
Tampering with a juror in the first degree is a class A misdemeanor.
Class A misdemeanors carry penalties of up to 364 days in jail
If “publishing in the media” is indeed “communicating”
Which it would not be otherwise all the right wing propaganda outlets that go even further would be facing serious charges that are trivial to prove.
pwease dismiss the case agwainst my daddy twump fow paying off a pown star and wying about it on wis buiswiss wecords pweaaaaase 🥺 👉👈
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