Michael Steele: Jesse Watters Is a ‘Pathetic Little Tool’ for Sowing Distrust in Trump Jurors

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STEELE: "So, I want to focus on little Jesse Watters because, you know, it just — he is being a pathetic little tool right now, as far as I’m concerned. What he is doing by calling out these jurors and opining on how they will acquit Donald Trump based on this, you have, for example, Daily Beast, Jesse Watters sowing doubt and trying to keep this narrative going, he goes and he's talking about, well, 'The second juror Watters described as a nurse from the Upper East Side with a Masters degree. She is not married, has no kids and lives with her fiancee who works in finance,' Watters said, chuckling for some reason we don't know. Why would you chuckle at that, right? Well, we do. What does this say about the forces that are trying to further undermine a very important aspect of our judicial process, which is, citizens sitting as a jury,dispassionate, you know, observing the facts as they are presented, assessing all of that, and then you have someone like Jesse out here, forecasting and literally trying to gin up crap about the jury. There is a reason why the judge made sure these jurors are not known. And there is a reason why, as we have seen and talked about, certain jurors are like, 'You know what? I don’t even want to be part of this because I don’t want to be threatened, I don’t want to have to deal with it.'”