One prospective juror, a woman who lives in the East Village, was dismissed after saying the intensity of her job would make participating difficult, she said in an interview with MSNBC.
“I work in cybersecurity,” she said. “Due to the nature of my job, it would be extremely hard for me to be here for the hours needed for as long as this trial is going to be.”
The dismissed juror added that she did say she would be able to be fair and impartial toward Trump in the trial, but that actually seeing him in person was “jarring.”
“I had never seen him in person before, you know,” she said. “And you see someone blown up so larger than life on the media for so many years, to see them in person is very jarring.”
The woman said that she made eye contact with Trump twice, once when she first began to read off the questionnaire and again right after she had finished and was dismissed.
“It was just another level of nervousness,” she said.
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