The first count landed like a hammer: “Guilty.”
In business-like fashion, the foreman of a Manhattan jury transformed Donald Trump — the former president of the United States and possibly the next one — into a convicted felon. Then he said it 33 more times.
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The trial was over. And minutes later, the jury was gone.
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The most jarring aspect of the moment was its mundane efficiency. If you closed your eyes, it sounded no different than the end of a run-of-the-mill criminal trial, with the foreman ticking through the charges before a relatively standard statement of gratitude from the judge for the jury’s completion of its civic duty.
Justice Juan Merchan then released the jurors…sending them back to their regular lives, likely forever changed by their brush with American history.
