Trump verdict wasn't 'rigged'

Last week Donald Trump was convicted unanimously by 12 jurors, people much like you and me. They were selected by both the prosecution and the defense, each side with equal ability to remove individual prospectives from the jury pool. To tell me that the choosing of jurors and alternates was somehow “rigged” is nonsense. To tell me that you, the diehard Trumper, are certain that all of those chosen jurors were Biden/Dem supporters is more nonsense – because you cannot know that. (And it only takes one to hang a jury.) The jury heard and saw all of the evidence. How much did you see and hear? Perhaps only what your favorite news sources plucked out and edited just for you.

You also cannot know that the judge was prejudiced against the defendant if you have not read the entire trial transcript and taken your own notes about the many decisions the judge had to make in the course of the trial. How many of you believers in a “rigged” trial have done that? Bear in mind, the judge made his rulings with meticulous care because he knew his every utterance would be minutely dissected by people everywhere and on all sides; and that Trump’s lawyers, in particular, would rigorously search for grounds for appeal.

So let me ask you: Can you possibly park your strongly held beliefs and search a bit for provable facts? No? I thought not.

Dana Heald

La Conner