NEW: Judge Merchan notifies the parties in People v. Trump that the following comment was posted about a week ago on the NY Courts Facebook page:

"My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted 🎉 Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!! ❤️”

https://subium.com/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3kueeqrhiws2l

Follow up

Good news: Katie Phang thinks there’s reason to believe the FB comment from the supposed juror’s cousin is a fake...

I bet the journo ends up deleting that post because "good news" will get him in trouble if the right-wing learns about it.

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is like that time someone posted “my cousin works at reddit and said r/cth is being banned next week”

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

first as tragedy, then as farce

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

It’s almost certainly fake but that isn’t going to stop chuds from inventing a new conspiracy theory about it

[–] Leon_Frotsky@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

the juror:

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be hilarious if this results in a mistrial.

[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Seems like they've probably got better grounds to appeal than that.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that juror's name? Lev Parnas

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Marty Pello