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Jury selection concluded Friday in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York, with 12 jurors and six alternates selected.
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 Jabin Botsford / GettyDonald Trump's defense team reportedly believes that young Black men will help save the former president from a guilty verdict.
Lawyers for the former president, who has the dubious distinction of being the first ex-commander in chief to be criminally tried, have been "hoping to spot sympathizers and will focus on younger Black men and white working-class men" as jurors, according to a recent New York Times report.
The notion that young Black men might be more easily persuaded than other jurors—less prone to critical thinking and seeing through the defense's smoke and mirrors—jibes perfectly with all the racist notions Trump has expressed over the years. Even in the midst of his own criminal trial, Trump's anti-Black racism remains on full display.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 ABCTaylor Swift fans have been counting down the seconds until the release of her much-anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department, which arrives today. But it was the Swifties who ended up being tortured when Jimmy Kimmel decided to prank a few of them by attempting to pass "Anything Is Possible," Lara Trump's painful-to-hear new single, off as a track from Swift.
Spoiler alert: No one was impressed.
"Taylor Swift's album isn't the only major release this month," Kimmel told his audience on Thursday. "It's the biggest, but we also got a new single a couple weeks ago from RNC co-chair and former first daughter-in-law Lara Trump."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 CNNShortly after it was announced that the entire jury had been empaneled in Donald Trump's hush-money trial on Friday, CNN anchor Laura Coates was interviewing a legal expert about what the jurors could expect in the weekslong case.
Little did she know that moments later she would have to dramatically cut that conversation short in order to pivot to a man setting himself on fire outside the lower Manhattan courthouse where the ex-president's trial is taking place.
Coates' quick journalistic impulses and composure while live-reporting a self-immolation and the attempts of first responders to extinguish the flames has drawn widespread praise from journalists and media observers, including conservatives who typically have nothing but disdain for CNN.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Elahe Izadi talks with Aaron Blake and Liz Goodwin about Week 1 of Trump's first criminal trial, how Israel is dividing Democrats in Congress, and whether GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's strategy to approve aid to Ukraine could cost him his job.
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