Former President Donald Trump on Thursday dropped a major revelation about his upcoming Manhattan trial.
The former president, while speaking at a joint press conference with House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), revealed that he intends to testify during his trial.
“I’m testifying. I tell the truth. All I can do is tell the truth,” the former president said. “And the truth is that there’s no case. It’s a scam. It’s a scam. That’s not a trial. That’s not a trial. That’s a scam.”
With only four days to go until the jury process began, the former president insisted getting a favorable jury depends on luck.
Jury selection for Trump’s allegedly falsifying business records trial is set to being on Monday. @GreggJarrett and @AlanDersh have full legal analysis TONIGHT on Hannity!
— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) April 13, 2024
“It depends who you get,” Trump said of jury selection. “It’s very unfair that I am having a trial there. It’s very unfair that we have this judge who hates Trump.”
Legal experts have argued that the process of selecting a jury for the case will not be easy. The former president and his legal team have also argued that they won’t get an impartial jury because the trial would be held in the Manhattan borough, which is comprised predominantly of Democrats.
Jury selection for Trump's trial begins Monday in a city that voted 85% for Joe Biden
The judge donated to Biden, has a daughter that gets money from Adam Schiff & Kamala, & is screening jurors by asking if they follow right wing movements
This trial was decided long ago pic.twitter.com/ng2awTx72b
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) April 12, 2024
According to the BBC, as many as 500 people from New York’s Manhattan and neighboring Roosevelt Island could be picked as potential jurors.
Former Manhattan prosecutor Jeremy Saland, one of those claiming selecting a jury will not be an easy task, insists the jury must be fair.
Former Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker discusses the New York appeals court's rejection of former President Trump's motion to delay his hush money trial. Whitaker expresses his lack of surprise at the decision, citing challenges in securing a fair jury panel in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/f7eZxuy72s
— Robert Gouveia Esq. (@RobGouveiaEsq) April 10, 2024
“There’s nobody in the country who doesn’t have an opinion one way or another,” Jeremy Saland said. But those in New York have been exposed to Donald Trump and his father and children for literally generations, from every tabloid to the internet to Home Alone. A jury should be fair no matter what, listen to the evidence and hold prosecutors to the burden. So no easy task.”
More Judge Tom Hogan, a DC district court judge who recently went on inactive status but handled at least 2 dozen J6 cases over the past few years.
Here he is explaining how hard it is recently to get an impartial jury in Washington.
I hope Trump's lawyers–and all J6… pic.twitter.com/ID94680fcJ
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 10, 2024
Saland added that removing impartial jurors will be the most difficult part of the jury selection process.
“Everyone, anyone, no matter who you are, no matter whether you wear blue or red goggles, needs to give the former president the same rights that any of us do, which is that he’s innocent until proven guilty,” Saland added
