From another AP article on this-

One prospective juror, an older white woman, was struck from the jury pool by the judge after Trump’s legal team uncovered years-old social media posts that described Trump as a “racist, sexist” narcissist.

One of Trump’s attorneys called the posts “vitriolic.”

“She harbors a deep hatred for him,” said the lawyer, Susan Necheles. “She said that ’I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if his tongue were notarized’” and that he was “anathema” to everything she was taught about love.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-jurors-hush-money-criticism-b4fe05a61ed566a587523d1120b46a76

I have no idea who this woman is, but please someone give her a job on The Daily Show.

Whomp whomp. Just soft enough that the defense can’t convince the judge for a freebie

I wonder what percentage of jurors were dismissed by the defense. Seems like a better indicator of Trump’s popularity than voting records. This process is much closer to a “random selection” than voluntary respondents at the polls.

“Sometimes the way he may carry himself in public leaves something to be desired. At the same time, I can relate to sometimes being a bit unfiltered,” she said. “I see him speak to a lot of people in America. I think there is something to be said about that."

Seems like even the ones who don't like him, still get the appeal. I can't see it personally, call me crazy.

“He’s the object of derision. It’s his nightmare. He can’t control the script. He can’t control the cinematography. He can’t control what’s being said about him. And the outcome could go in a direction he really doesn’t want,” said Tim O’Brien, a Trump biographer and critic.

I felt a weird sense of almost pity reading this. On the surface, when I think about how deeply uncomfortable this scenario was for Trump, I'm glad, because he's laughable and this is nothing compared to the harms he has wrought on the world. But at a level deeper than that, when I think about how, for a narcissist like Trump, this is probably the greatest torture one could devise, and that's so pathetic that it's just sad.

To people like Trump, everything is about power. Everything is adversarial. The system that Trump exists within, that he's a part of perpetuating, teaches that power is everything and you either oppress others or be one of the subjugated.

When I was a kid, I ended up teaching myself to ignore hunger due to a bundle of things including poverty and eating disorders, so nowadays, I literally don't notice my hunger. I have to set alarms to remember to eat and in the rare instances where I do feel the physical hunger, I rarely notice it as that. I wonder whether people like Trump do the same with their capacity to feel for Human goodness. Forgive the overly poetic phrasing, but it feels like they've sold their soul for the ability to feel safe in the world, because they have opted into the adversarial worldview I described above.

“I don’t like his persona, how he presents himself in public,”

Uhm... really? Is this supposed to be "unvarnished"? For this cheeto-colored parasitic colostomy bag masquerading as a human being?

Trump could get harsher criticisms than that in fucking art school.

I wonder how many just want out as they fear for their lives from the Maga crowd if their identity was to be revealed?

Trump has spent his entire life in an insulated bubble of yesmen who take his literal shit and praise it as the greatest of perfume, because they wanted his money.

Since his election, He has been exposed, perhaps for the first time in his history, to the unfiltered view that most of the world has for him.. Especially after his response to covid, his insurrection, and his post-presidency constant temper-tantruming.. and I'm convinced he does not know how to handle it, that its probably causing him severe mental decline due to his extreme obsessiveness over what people think him now that his insulating bubble has long since popped.

Hes basically the child in all those entitled parent stories you hear where the parents let their kid do whatever they want and never tell them no.