Trump Rape Trial Jurors Get Special Travel Protections

The Daily Beast reports:

“God willing, nobody will ever know your names,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told them all, noting that not even he would know who they are.

The judge also noted that, unlike most trials where jurors simply show up in court with the rest of the public, U.S. Marshals in this case would meet jurors away from the courthouse and drive them into and out of an underground garage every day.

An initial batch of 48 prospective jurors was quickly whittled down to 35, with the judge promptly running through 82 questions submitted by lawyers on both sides. He excused a New Yorker who was unvaccinated, another who donated to the political campaigns of Presidents Biden and Obama, and others who openly admitted they couldn’t judge the case fairly.

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At the link you’ll find descriptions of each of the selected jurors, one of whom is a 31-year old Bronx security guard who said that he listens to far-right podcaster Tim Pool, who appeared here recently when Kanye West stormed out of his interview after spewing pro-Hitler remarks.

The federal judge overseeing the case ruled that Trump’s legal team made their appeal too late. Now, jurors are set to hear about another incident that could show a pattern of sexual assault from Trump.

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