CNN Asks New Yorkers Whether Trump Jury Can Be Impartial: ‘We May Have Opinions but I Feel Like We Set the Tone for Fair and Equity’

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WHITFIELD: “All 12 jurors and six alternates have been seated for Donald Trump‘s first criminal trial in Manhattan. But can the former president be judged by impartial jurors in a city that overwhelmingly voted for Biden in 2020? CNN‘s Miguel mark has asked New Yorkers to weigh in on the high profile case and some of their answers just might surprise you.” you know Donald Trump for many years. What is, what was your impression of him before he was president?
>> Bad person, but using, you could be in that courtroom. And you could judge the evidence fairly.
>> Delved into the details or camera or anything. He doesn‘t really interest me that much.
>> Fair and impartial juror? In the Trump trial?
>> Said before, I really hated his total catastrophes we are going from the top of Manhattan to the very bottom of Manhattan, talking to Manhattan nights, potential jurors and whether they could be fair and impartial in the donalds on trial on the 34 counts that he is charged with. You could make a fair and impartial decision.
>> Everything, yeah, nothing I can I will I will I won‘t let him being a jerk cloud my legal sense of fair play.
>> Opinion about him. I said, people should be judged by what they‘ve done before. Well, and I think they‘ve dilated down and its history and its evidence. So I should be judged by that.
>> To him, so definitely because I mean I feel like there‘s urge that yes, I would totally be fair and impartial because that‘s what I believe in and I‘m always I‘m a New Yorker. I‘m upfront and honest about everything. Could you be fair and impartial?
>> And speculation and things that I‘ve seen that he‘s done and I don‘t really agree on his character in 2020 Manhattan nights voted democratic in overwhelming numbers, just over 12% for Trump. Or Biden, nearly 87%. do do you think Donald Trump can get a fair trial in Manhattan?
>> Place that it‘s going to happen, it‘s going to happen here because New Yorkers in general, I mean, we may have opinions but I feel like we set the tone for fair and equity. That‘s what we do clearly, our justice system is being attacked.
>> Defend it, to fan due process and to defend the rule of law