Posted on 08/17/2015 9:53:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After a whirlwind weekend campaigning in Iowa, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump took a break from the race on Monday to report for jury duty in a Manhattan courtroom.
“Is his helicopter going to land here?” a wily New York judge, who did not give her name, joked to the Guardian. She confirmed that the crowd outside the courthouse where she works was unusually large, even compared to the crowds that greet other celebrity courtroom guests.
The judge assessed the scene, then settled down with a hot coffee across the street to watch the spectacle, which included about 100 reporters from publications including the New York Daily News, Access Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight.
In the hour before the courtroom opened to jurors at 8.30am, the media crowd swelled from about 30 people to the dense crowd of 100 – a testament to the circus that surrounds the celebrity, businessman and Republican candidate. On Friday evening, CNN’s Trump coverage included a story about his wife headlined: “Developing now: former supermodel could be first lady.”
Tourists snapped photos as jurors waived their summons at court guards, trying to push past the crowd. Frantic New Yorkers updated friends as they walked by, one woman describing the scene to a person she was speaking with on the phone as “all this TV bullshit with The Apprentice and everything”.
When the flaxen-haired presidential candidate finally stepped out of a black stretch limousine on to the court curbside, reporters crushed in, ignoring courthouse police. Trump’s brows furrowed and his face was pinched as he nudged through the crowd, indicating more discomfort with the media scrum then his bombastic comments would suggest. Nonetheless, he bumped fists with one reporter and signed an autograph for another onlooker.
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wow I do not recognize who he's talking about because every other time I read about Donald Trump I see the adjective of blowhard bloviateur bombastic idiot sinister etcetera
From the article:
Trump’s appearance in court was fresh off the release of his policy paper – an unorthodox piece of anti-immigration rhetoric that argues: “In short, Mexico has taken the United States to the cleaners.”
I have difficulty believing that it was pure chance that his name was rolled at this moment in time. Perhaps! But we will probably never know for sure.
George W got called in a few weeks ago. Is there a pattern here? I’m waiting to see of any high profile democrats get called in.
This is no chance happening or lottery thing. This was done on purpose to distract the Donald. There are a lot of really rich people who would get shut down by Trump. They will use every dirty trick in the book to sabotage his campaign. Don’t doubt me!
In my boredom, I will tell you what I see in the photo.
Like anybody cares...
ONLY three bodyguards. Chris Roc to the right. Happy people, and unhappy people (female in the back, court marshalls all around). Sheesh, he is just going to jury duty for cripes sake.
Trump is sucking the oxygen, electrons, and print ink out of the atmosphere.
Rinse Prius is not happy.
5.56mm
I hope Trump brought a good book to read, it gets boring very quickly waiting for your name to get called.
What are the odds of W being called for jury duty and less than two weeks later Trump? It’d be just like Hillary to put Trump on a very long trial and sequester the jury to keep him out of the race.
W gave him the idea.
For all the news stories claiming the opposite, I have been pleasantly surprised to learn that Trump is just a really nice and likable guy.
...and, for the record, I think he has really beautiful hair. I keep looking at it because others have commented. It is gorgeous, especially for his age. He is a nice looking man.
I got called for jury duty, too. Does that mean I am as important as W and Trump? Ha! I know the answer. BTW, the system here requires a potential juror to call first. I didn’t even have to show up.
LOL. It is not a distraction. It is keeping him in the public eye. He loves it.
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