Just “another guy”; “simply a defendant”

A woman who gave her name as Kara,…told NBC News that [s]eeing Mr. Trump in person…was “very jarring.” He was, she realized, just “another guy.”
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A man, a dismissed juror, who contacted the Times after being excused:

Trump was simply a defendant, he thought.

The curtain pulled back, the Wizard of Oz is revealed to be…a man, just a man.