Trump's jury doesn't have to like him to be fair to him

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump continued.
51% : In Louisiana's case, however, despite voters abolishing non-unanimous juries in 2018, the state's supreme court maintained that all previous convictions would remain valid.
48% : Over the past week, the judge, prosecution, and defense have been interrogating prospective jurors, asking them things like where they get their news, and sifting through their social media accounts to see whether they've ever publicly expressed their views on Trump.
47% : That's why the judge has to ensure that the jury is as fair and impartial as possible: Trump shouldn't get any special treatment, no matter how much he rails against the judge, prosecutors, or jurors.
43% : One juror, who said she's not a political person, said that she likes that Trump "speaks his mind, and I'd rather that than someone who's in office who you don't know what they're thinking."
35% : In fact, since he was indicted, Trump has been preemptively undermining the legitimacy of his potential jury, arguing that it will be impossible to get a fair trial in jurisdictions where residents vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
33% : It's just one window into how Trump plans to delegitimize the cases brought against him.
33% : Some expressed having strong feelings about Trump; others said the opposite.
32% : Potential jurors have been asked to read out or explain posts or memes they've shared, and at least one was dismissed for sharing a post that included the words "lock him up," in reference to Trump.
32% : While Trump hasn't said that he won't receive a fair trial because of the racial makeup of the jury, the jurisdictions he complains about are much more racially diverse than places his lawyers have suggested that he could receive a fair trial (like West Virginia, for example).
30% : It might seem like Trump is pushing that boundary given his unique status as the only former US president to go on trial, but he is no different than any other defendant -- he is accused of breaking the law and he can't bypass a trial simply because he's too famous.
29% : Trump and some of his Republican colleagues have insisted that the juries in New York or Washington, DC -- where his Jan. 6 case will be tried -- are far too biased against him, and that a fair trial is impossible.
29% : In doing so, Trump is essentially saying that the public should ultimately dismiss whatever verdict is delivered, just as he expected the public to dismiss the results of the 2020 election in jurisdictions he didn't like, such as Atlanta, Philadelphia, or Detroit.
25% : That's despite the fact that there's a gag order that prohibits Trump from publicly talking about the jurors.
22% : As the Manhattan district attorney's case against Donald Trump got underway this week -- with the former president accused of falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments -- one question has so far haunted the proceedings: Can the court actually select an impartial jury for one of the most polarizing figures in American history?
22% : As the trial goes on, questions about these jurors' impartiality will surely linger, because Trump and his allies have continued to attack the cases against him as a kind of political persecution -- trials with predetermined outcomes.
22% : Trump, for example, quoted the Fox News host Jesse Waters in a social media post, claiming, "They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury."
21% : But this isn't a normal case, and a jury pool that hasn't heard of Donald Trump is not likely to be found anywhere.
13% : Even if Trump's attacks on the juries are strictly based on partisan lines, the criminal legal system does not rely on a defendant's or jurors' personal politics to mete out justice, despite what Trump says.

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