One of the jurors in the Manafort trial spoke to Red Fox News after the verdict. Paula Duncan, a Trump supporter, said she did not want to find Manafort guilty but that the evidence--on all 18 counts--was "overwhelming" and that there was a lone holdout on the ten counts on which Manafort was not convicted. Duncan also made this startling statement about the prosecutors:
"I saw them napping during the trial….So it kind of sent a message of we're bored with this and I'm thinking, 'well if you're bored then why are we here?'"
"I saw them napping during the trial….So it kind of sent a message of we're bored with this and I'm thinking, 'well if you're bored then why are we here?'"
I take Duncan literally, i.e. that the prosecutors were nodding off, sleeping, and I believe her. I have never heard of such a thing. I am shocked.
