There was only one white male in the room: Trump defenders racist attack on Muellers grand jury

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MELANIE SCHMITZ at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/mueller-witness-racist-comments-d49ceef6c1f9/

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A witness who recently testified before Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s federal grand jury claimed in an interview with the New York Post’s Page Six this week that the jurors looked like they were all from “a Black Lives Matter rally.”

“The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally. Maybe they found these jurors in central casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley,” the witness told Post columnist Richard Johnson, who previously served as a Miss Universe pageant judge during Trump’s time at the helm. “…There was only one white male in the room, and he was a prosecutor.”


The witness claimed that, out of the 20 jurors on the panel, 11 were Black. Two, they said, were wearing “peace T-shirts.”

“That room isn’t a room where POTUS gets a fair shake,” they added, insinuating that more white jurors were needed in order for the process to be considered credible.


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[Me.]

1. Tough

Now you know how POC and women have felt.

[applegrove]

2. Exactly.

[Marcuse]

3. Maybe he should take a knee in silent protest.

[Me.]

5. Good One

[yardwork]

14. Lol!

[Vogon_Glory]

4. If Muellers Grand Jury is in DC, why do the wing-nuts expect

it to be as Lily-white as northern Maine or West Virginia?

[shenmue]

8. Because they don't know shit

[bdamomma]

6. What's this crap

about him getting a "fair shake" Is he giving the American people a fair shake???

[ProudLib72]

9. The only time he gives a fair shake

Is after he's used the urinal for trickle down.

[gratuitous]

7. I will make a wild and totally unsupported statement

The unnamed person who talked to Richard Johnson is on record somewhere as pooh-poohing the appeal of a black defendant because an all-white jury was biased against him. I have no proof of that statement, particularly as I don't know who Johnson's unnamed source for these statements is, but I'll bet a shiny nickel that it's true.

[L. Coyote]

10. Great idea for Trump's prison block.

Hola Donald, como estas?

[GusBob]

11. I thought Grand Jury deliberations were secret

I'd be willing to bet he was told not to discuss any aspects of the proceedings

Also I'd bet he is lying

What exactly is a peace tee shirt

Get him back in there under oath regarding these comments and his previousvtestimony

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12. Maybe it is a set up to get Trump off on a technicality.

[Takket]

13. i love this missive that all of a sudden........

only people with a MAGA hat on are fit to judge the president. first they rip mueller because two people were texting about drumpf. As if it is unconscionable that a hillary supporter could exist, let alone be on muellers team! Now they rip the grand jury for having people on it that are... GASP... black!!!!!!!!!!

[ecstatic]

15. Aren't the names withheld in the proceedings?

Do the jurors even know the race of the defendants? And since Trumpkins love to project, I guess he's also saying that we can't expect a fair shake from the almost all white male Congress and judicial system.