‘Perfectly Reasonable’: Honig on Trump’s Request to Amend Jury Questions in Hush Money Trial

EXCERPT:

HONIG: “Well, Wolf, Donald Trump has made a series of unreasonable motions that have failed throughout this week, but this particular request is completely reasonable and, I think, fair. And it wouldn’t even surprise me if the D.A. agrees. So, here’s what the judge said he’s going to do. He said he is going start jury selection by saying, is there anyone here who cannot serve, either because of hardship, meaning you have a job that prevents you, or some other impediment, or because you have such strong bias you can’t sit on this case. And all that Trump has said he wants the judge to do is separate those into two different questions so that if and when he needs to appeal, he’ll be able to say, look how many people we lost out of our jury pool because of bias. That will take essentially zero extra time. It actually will make for a clearer record here, and I think it makes sense for the judge to do it. I think it’s a perfectly reasonable and rational request by Trump’s team.”