No. of Recommendations: 16
Trump Was Convicted by a Jury, Not by His Political Enemies The reason why Zenger walked out of his trial a free man and Trump walked
out a felon is that Zenger’s jury voted to acquit and Trump’s jury voted to
convict. This simple fact refutes most of the complaints that the former
president made to reporters immediately after the verdict on Thursday.
Trump said, without evidence, that President Biden was responsible for his
conviction, saying “this was done by the Biden administration in order to
wound or hurt an opponent.” Trump also implied, again without evidence, that
evil big-money men are out to get him, describing Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg as a “Soros-backed D.A.” And he claimed that trial judge Juan Merchan
was unfair, calling him “a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed
to try this case.”
But it was 12 ordinary citizens, not Biden, Soros or Merchan, who unanimously
pronounced Trump guilty on 34 felony counts. In fact, the Trump trial shows
why juries have long been considered an important anti-corruption device
apple.news: Trump Was Convicted by a Jury, Not by His Political Enemieswsj.com - Trump was convicted by a jury not by his political enemiesThe author is a professor of constitutional law at Yale and the author, most recently, of “The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.”
