Sleepy Don
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
At the start of Trump's Manhattan criminal trial, the court needs 12 jurors and six alternates – but many times that number have been dismissed, for a whole variety of reasons, some mundane and others surprising. Seven have been sworn in so far, including a foreman. In our second episode, the crew discusses the jurors selected during the first two days in court.
Plus, the dynamic between Trump's lawyers, Judge Juan Merchan and the former president himself is getting tense, with Merchan sternly warning Trump not to gesture at or speak to potential jurors.
And is Trump having trouble staying awake at times? Washington Post national security and law enforcement reporter Devlin Barrett - an author of our sister newsletter, The Trump Trials - joins the show to reveal what it's like covering the trial from inside the courthouse.
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| 0:00.0 | Jury selection is like curb your enthusiasm but without cursing because people just come in and they say whatever's on their mind and the conversation is going ridiculous directions that have no point at the end of yesterday. |
| 0:14.1 | It was like I talking about his his public access TV show. |
| 0:18.6 | And that's a very, was fantastic. |
| 0:27.7 | And he had a lot of thoughts in a lot of directions and we talked about his friends in prison and like he was like, oh maybe I don't even be here. |
| 0:32.4 | Devlin is this guy on the jury. |
| 0:34.0 | This is what we need to know. |
| 0:36.0 | We will never give up, we will never can see if it doesn't happen. |
| 0:40.0 | That's exactly what it was, and you've got you could indict it on with it. |
| 0:45.0 | I object to you getting one. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to the newest Washington Post podcast, The Trump Trials sidebar. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm your host Libby Casey and I'm joined in the newsroom by Rhonda Colvin and James |
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