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A jury candidate in the trial against the Trump organization said the former president made him sick.
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“I don’t think it’s a very healthy thing to be here,” the man told a judge in Manhattan.
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He was acquitted from a high-profile state Supreme Court case.
a man summoned as a juror New York Criminal Tax Evasion Trial Against Former President Donald Trump’s International Real Estate Firm On Thursday, the former commander-in-chief was acquitted by a judge, saying he had offended him badly.
The then-middle-aged juror candidate told New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Manuel Marchan on the third day of jury selection for the Manhattan trials that he had “strong feelings” about Trump, but that “It turned into a very visceral feeling ‘in my gut’ overnight.”
The man said he hadn’t had those feelings about Trump’s transition from businessman to Republican politician in the two years since he became president.
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“It doesn’t sound very healthy for me to be here,” the man told Merchan before being forgiven.
The judge asked the defense attorneys and prosecutors if they had objections to the man’s dismissal, but they said no.
After leaving court, the man refused to speak to reporters.
As of Thursday afternoon, all 12 jurors have been selected to the panel in a high-profile state Supreme Court case.in that group Two women in court say they don’t like the way Trump runs the country But they can continue to be fair and impartial jurors.
A jury will determine whether Trump’s namesake business, the Trump Organization, deceived tax officials. The company has been accused of paying executives some off-the-books compensation in the form of tax-exempt benefits such as free apartments and cars.
Pursuing innocence, the Trump Organization faces multiple counts of collusion, conspiracy to defraud, falsification of business records, and criminal tax fraud.
Trump himself has torn up charges against his company as a “political witch hunt.”
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