President Trump attacked the federal prosecutors in the Roger Stone case, calling them “these corrupt people.” He went after the judge who oversaw Stone’s prosecution. But these assaults, unwarranted as they are, pale by comparison to Trump’s unprecedented and unceasing assault on the jury forewoman.
Even as U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was holding a hearing Tuesday on Stone’s allegations of jury bias, Trump was tweeting — again, this time from India — about the juror. “There has rarely been a juror so tainted as the forewoman in the Roger Stone case,” Trump asserted. “Look at her background. She never revealed her hatred of ‘Trump’ and Stone. She was totally biased, as is the judge. Roger wasn’t even working on my campaign. Miscarriage of justice. Sad to watch!“
Yes, sad to watch a president so out of control. As Jackson noted at Tuesday’s hearing, “Any attempt to harass or intimidate jurors is completely antithetical to our system of justice.” Not that Trump has any understanding of, or respect for, our system of justice. Continue reading.