Merchan Alerts DA, Trump’s Lawyers of Facebook User Claiming He Knew Jury Would Convict Trump
“My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted…Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!”
Today, Judge Juan Merchan alerted the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and former President Donald Trump’s lawyer of a Facebook post from a user claiming insider knowledge of Trump’s conviction.
Merchan said the comment is “now labeled as one week old.”
The user, “Michael Anderson,” commented on the New York Courts Facebook page on a post unrelated to Trump’s case.
The user wrote, “My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted…Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!”
“The comment, now labeled as one week old, responded to a routine UCS notice, posted on May 29, 2024, regarding oral arguments in the Fourth Department of the Appellate Division unrelated to this proceeding,” wrote Merchan.
Merchan added: “The posting, entitled ‘The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, will hear oral arguments at 10,’ and the comment are both viewable at https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkCourts/.”
I went to the Facebook page. I do not see a May 29 post. Remember, you can comment on any active post, no matter how old.
The jury convicted Trump on Thursday, May 30. If the comment is a week old, the user posted it on Friday, May 31.
However, I find it odd that Merchan did not provide a date for the comment, even though I’m certain he looked at the post. Why else would he send the letter?
Trump’s team could use the comment in its appeal. Then again, they don’t need it. The courts have enough to easily overturn the verdict.
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What will come of it? If it does result in a mistrial though, Trump gets to appeal all the questionable things.
Merchan is taking his orders from biden’s handlers. “Find a way out of this,” they demanded in panic.
Interesting. I didn’t think of that initially. But, you very well could be correct. A mistrial would A) Foreclose any potential for an appeal by Trump BEFORE the election and B) Still preserve the chance of refiling, particularly if Trump wins.
Refiling would be an even bigger problem if President Trump wins the election. If they tried, there is a very good chance that Merchan and Bragg would be arrested for Sedition.
It would be great to see Merchan and Bragg receive a lot of justice.
Why do that? As has been richly proven, everyone can be convicted of at least one federal felony. Sending the FBI and DoJ to dig deep into the Merchant’s and Bragg’s history will certainly reveal something that can be twisted into a federal felony. After all, exploiting the law to go after political opponents is ok now, right?
That is bullshit, and you know it. What I can’t figure out is whether you’re pro-Trump and seriously claiming there’s a case to be made for sedition against them, which is obviously bullshit, or you’re anti-Trump and claiming if elected he’ll really turn dictator as the Demagogues are loudly claiming, which is also obvious bullshit.
If Trump takes office at noon on Jan-20, he will not seize dictatorial powers; he will adhere to the constitution, a lot more closely than the current president does. And that means he will not order anyone’s arrest on bogus charges.
Now it may be that he will quietly instruct his AG to have someone in DOJ dig around and see if there’s anything Bragg or Merchan can be indicted for; and if he finds some dirt on them he absolutely should do his duty to see that the laws are kept, with no hesitation over the political implications. But sedition is not and cannot be one of the options. Nothing they have done or could possibly have done can possibly be construed as that.
If this judge had no concerns over constitutional due process or even more basically, the literal absence of any actual crime, why should this bother him? I can see him just ruling “meh”
I’d definitely believe it.
They see the giant boost Trump got from the conviction, they’re terrified that Merchan made his ludicrous bias too obvious, and that either he’s going to get another massive boost from a jail sentence, or he’s going to get a massive boost from NOT being sentenced to jail from the backlash from the insane left.
Of course it just demonstrated the laughable nonsense the judge pulled from day 1 with this jury. This was a no-brainer automatic sequestration, instead, he sent them home for a freaking WEEK after the defense rested before they even heard closing arguments. I’ve literally never heard of a break that long in any trail, EVER, you want them to start deliberations as fast as possible. Unless, of course, your aim was to make sure there was maximum time for them to be harassed by everybody in their orbit that knew they were on the jury.
To be honest, most people expected a conviction even before the jury was chosen due to juridicial bias and the will of the Coercive Organs of State Power.
Subotai Bahadur
The only difference is the “my cousin” reference but your right. Everyone predicted a guilty verdict.
Everyone knew that. No inside knowledge or corruption needed.
It would just mean that the jury wasn’t fair which is what was planned anyway.
The insider would have to know not only that his juror will vote to convict but that all jurors will vote to convict, which he’s unlikely to have inside information on, for it to mean anything new.
Why is it unlikely? The premise of his comment is that he knows a juror, who talked to him. If that premise is true — and there’s no reason it couldn’t be — then the juror might very well have a good idea how the others were likely to vote, and therefore could have told him.
When I was on a jury (foreman in fact) we were given the common instruction to not discuss the case until after both sides gave their closing arguments. So no individual juror would have an inkling about how the vote would go before jury deliberations.
If this jury did discuss before deliberations, that is jury misconduct and is grounds for mistrial.
That’s the best case scenario, an honest, but wrong jumping the gun. More cynical would the fix was in from the beginning.
The closing arguments were long over. Deliberations had been going for two days. Each juror would have had a very good idea of what the others were thinking, and there’s nothing implausible about one of them telling a cousin.
Yeah. Discussing things out of court before the jury is excused is perfectly fine……as long as the case involves the “right people”…hahahahaha.
1A Rules, are you stupid, or just going off on an irrelevant riff?
Have you ever been to jail? I ask because I have been to jail and to Washington and iprefer jail
So you think Trump should go to jail rather than Washington?!
He will need everything he can get. The appellate court is unlikely to be less corrupt than the court that didn’t toss this out originally.
Trump’s team could use the comment in its appeal. Then again, they don’t need it. The courts have enough to easily overturn the verdict.
First you have to get the courts to follow the law. Which in NY would be a major accomplishment.
A scheme to get Trump back in the courthouse there, with a gag order once more, and another travel ban.
I agree…. Merchan is so corrupt that if this is coming from him it is only for corrupt reasons. New York law as I’ve read says this can nullify then a new trial… Trump tied up in New till after election.
They let a juror in that admitted listening to Michael Cohen’s freaking podcasts.
A random comment by a facebook user doesn’t even register on the scale of jury nonsense that went down.
Indeed. Compared to what else has been going on this 2nd-hand admission of bias seems small by comparison.
A black man in a Southern state during Jim Crow had a better chance of getting justice than a non- Democrat does now in NY.
https://revolver.news/2024/06/proof-that-nycs-trump-trial-was-more-unfair-than-mlks-1960s-segregationist-alabama-trial/
Same thing.
A black man in a southern state during Jim Crow WAS a non-Democrat in a Democrat single party system.
Black people used to be smart enough to NOT join the party of slavery.
Correctamundo.
No one should trust this judge with any information. A mis-trial stops the appellate process. I’m sure he doesn’t want the appellate process looking at his daughter making money off of this trial. She fund raises for Xiden and other demonrats. She gets a percentage of all monies raised. In some circles that would be prima facia of the judge being investigated for aiding and enriching his daughter through his courtroom decisions. FJB
There is not a shred of evidence that she made any money at all from the trial, let alone from its outcome.
The fact that she consults to Democrats on fundraising is irrelevant; it doesn’t tie her to the trial in any way.
Rah rah for evil… says Clownhouse
You are evil. So rah rah into the mirror and leave us alone.
So you see no conflict of interest? Odd, the rest of us do.
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Then the rest of you are wrong. Show me one shred of evidence that his daughter’s occupation creates a conflict — and explain how this is different from Mrs Thomas’s Republican activism.
“Then the rest of you are wrong.”
Because EVERYONE knows that Outhouse could NEVER be wrong.
Why?
Because his pompous ass tells us all the time how smart he is.
All Democrat, all the time.
Look, you arrogant piece of filth, if you have one shred of evidence that her income depended in any way on the outcome of the case, why don’t you send it to Trump’s lawyers, who would love to see it, because they don’t have any such evidence.
If you have any evidence that her occupation creates a conflict of interest for her father, you should tell us about it, but you would have the absolute obligation to also explain why the same argument doesn’t apply to Mrs Thomas.
Any argument that doesn’t distinguish between the two women is automatically invalid, because we know that Thomas has already said his wife’s activities don’t create a conflict for him, and his colleagues seem to have agreed with him (as does every fair-minded person, as far as I know).
if you have one shred of evidence that her income depended in any way on the outcome of the case
What the hell are you talking about?
No one is saying anything like this.
The conflict is that she’s raising money to keep Trump out of office using direct info from the case that this judge, her dad, is on.
The conflict is that the judge is in direct contact with an active adversary of the defendant.
Do you even know how to spell law?
Not just bullshit, but FUCKING bullshit!!!
Yes, you are full of fucking bullshit. You established that long ago. You have admitted that you take your positions based entirely on whose ox is gored, and that you expect everyone else does that too. Which makes you a deeply corrupt person.
The courts had enough to easily not let that sham indictment be brought to trial to start. The courts had enough to easily force Merchan to recuse. The courts had enough to easily have not allowed even the most partisan dipsh*t juror to find guilt on any count.
If I had a nickel for every time the courts had had enough to easily have the show trial against Trump stopped dead in its tracks …
How difficult is it to check for cousins of jurors and possibly cousins named Michael Anderson (though the name could well not be real even if he is a juror’s cousin)? Keeping it to first cousins, how many people could possibly be in that list connected to 12 jurors and 4 alternates?
Let’s see. I have a whopping 3 first cousins. My children have 14. 12 jurors- so somewhere between 36 and 168 first cousins to trace would be a good guess. Add the 4 alternates- and it enlarges it somewhat.
And you could very well find that some of the jurors are related by blood or marriage doing this. It’s really amazing how fast connections build up when you’re looking for them.
In case you’re wondering just how fast relations can build up- one of my nephews from small town PA married a girl from Philly. My daughter, while in HS in Ruralville NY, went to a Spanish class at SU with his future wife’s brother. My daughter had an online videogame partner in LA. My daughter and her online partner met in person at the wedding- accidently since neither knew the other would be there. He was friends with the bride, and his family business associates with the bride’s family…
I’ve got a whole lot more examples of this kind of thing among my family and friends. Random connections that tie people together.
6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Just say it’s 1000. Still no big deal. And with the name, Michael Anderson – which seems sort of a weird screen name, if it was – you could get a hit in no time.
And the judge can call all of the jurors in and question them, too. .. If he cared to …
It could be an homage. Michael Anderson (now decd) was the backwards-speaking dwarf from Twin Peaks and also the strawboss of Carnivale. I’ve appreciated his acting tremendously.
The jury deliberated for a few hours on its first day. That night, one of the jurors told his cousin that Trump was found guilty. The next day, the cousin (Michael Anderdon) writes a Facebook post stating that Trump was guilty. The jury then stuck around for another day in order to make their decision look measured and well-debated. But the reality is, the decision was reached within minutes of the trial ending.
Try was reached before they were even seated. You can’t look at the shenanigans that went on in jury selection and believe for one second that any of them had the slightest inclination to ever hear a shred of evidence other than Orange Man Bad.
To my paranoid mind, this smells like a trap to retry President Trump through the election and keep the gag rule in place. But that’s just me.
That’s not paranoia. It’s experience.
During the Darrell Brooks trial, a Reddit thread claimed that the author was a member of the jury and the jury had been discussing the case before it was given to them.
The post also claimed that the Judge was biased and there was no way a black man could get a fair trial in her court.
(In fact, the whole Reddit sub group was entitled “Justice for Darrell Brooks.”)
Just because there is a post, doesn’t mean the post is true. Law enforcement should investigate, but people shouldn’t be jumping at the idea that this post against Trump is automatically true.
Find the juror, replace with alternate and find Trump guilty again.
Once th verdict has been read, I believe it is too late to replace a juror.
That’s not how it works–he either gets a new trial based on juror misconduct, or the case is dismissed with prejudice for all sorts of misconduct–I think Judge Merchan is going to find out that he’s the biggest source of fundraising that Trump has
I believe bob was being facetious.
Judge Juan Freisler and DA Allan Beria won their case, didn’t they?
I suppose if Merchan is looking for an excuse to declare a mistrial, he can… but this seems like such small potatoes. Even if this isn’t just a random person on the internet, it would be hard to prove that he wasn’t lying or exaggerating for attention.
I’d be more concerned that the judge might be sending Trump to jail next month and we still don’t know what the predicate felony was.
The predicate felony is running against the UniParty. And the sending him to jail will be intended as the carrying out of capital punishment.
Subotai Bahadur
What did the judge expect? He didn’t sequester the jury, or take away their access to computers, phones, etc–I’m not surprised that the fix was in, and I’m now glad to see evidence of that. Wonder how much money Trump will raise off of this.
Of course the other aspect of this could be that the corrupt hack hung this out there to try and bait Trump into violating his ridiculous gag order, so he could throw him in jail right now.
Best of the tshirts I’ve seen are “For He’s a Jolly Good Felon”, a whole bunch with the saying “I’m voting for the felon, and “Outlaw 2024” in a rectangular box with a yellow hair piece and red tie.
Sounds like the mother of all sh!tposts.
Perhaps the cousin is using the word “says” loosely and the communication was telekinetic. The consanguinity could very well have formed the basis of a telepathic channel, in which case, no instruction was violated. This theory was suggested by Hunter’s attorney.
I doubt if a mistrial is in the cards. This is likely Merchan trying to rehabilitate his reputation (I know the crazies think Dershowitz and Turley are turncoats but I expect a lot of older and more moderate liberals still give them some respect) or an attempt at something that can be spun as ‘proving’ the jury wasn’t biased (this post was fake thus all claims that the jury outcome was predetermined are also fake .. lefty logic)
good to know but means nothing
the cultural war is the lefts against the good people
the blmplo street armies are the other part against the good people
the schools and the msm ..against the good people
GOP
STOP THE TAX FUNDING TO THESE C…SUCKERS NOW!!!!!!!!
This is a nothing-burger.
Merchan has to report this to both parties because someone alerted him. He’s CYA-ing himself just in case of that tiny chance it is a real thing.
You need to prove this poster is related to a juror (or spoke to a juror) and than it has to be shown the juror said it. Either recorded OR the juror admits it in court.
This is most likely a troll who was messing with people on Facebook.
So I don’t see Merchan doing anything with it.
Set up alert!!
Set up alert!!
the judge knows that in all rights the verdict should be over turned so
he is setting up ( or trying to ) a scenario where NOT HE but others can be blamed for the failures on the part of the kangaroo ny court system
Expanding for a minute;
Why couldn’t a new AG go back to 1992 and the agreements signed as global policy in June and then charge all of the involved parties who have held Constitutional office since and used that office in furtherance of those goals and deliverables, which are incompatible with the US Constitution. Treason under RICO. Once the organization and crime are proven which is very easily done using their own words and documents let the trials begin. The first question should be something like “Have all of your official acts in office been consistent with supporting, protecting and defending the US constitution?” Let the hanging begin! The beauty is that once the first wave is gone you have the RICO framework to begin to attach the second wave to and so on until we’re hanging school board members. Where the hell is McCarthy when we need him?