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| Trump trial live updates: Trump reprimanded for muttering at potential juror - BBC News | Trump trial live updates: Trump reprimanded for muttering at potential juror - BBC News |
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| Madeline Halpert | Madeline Halpert |
| Reporting from court | Reporting from court |
| Prosecutors spent the break this afternoon combing through social media posts going back as far as 2016. | |
| And not just posts from the prospective jurors, but even their romantic partners. | |
| Todd Blanche, one of Trump's lawyers, brought up a series of posts shared by a potential juror's husband in 2016. | |
| One had a character from "The Simpsons" with Trump's head in its hands, another said "The Avengers unite against Trump". | |
| And Judge Merchan read out lines from the third post with an image of Trump next to President Barack Obama: | |
| "I don’t think this is what they meant, that orange is the new black". | |
| Joshua Steinglass from the prosecution is trying to limit the power these posts have to dismiss potential jurors. He says that "social media posts from seven or eight years ago" serve as a problematic litmus test. | |
| "People post things on social media … that seem to be funny at the time, and that’s not necessarily as weighty as people think it is." | |
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