Hung jury is most likely outcome

The travesty of a political show-trial against Donald Trump has finally been submitted to the jury of five men, five women and two lawyers in ultra-blue Manhattan.

A conviction takes unanimity. So does an acquittal. A hung jury takes only at least one dissenter.

Expect them to decide that they can’t decide. It’ll be a hung jury. Stage-rants produced by White House staff-kids (remember Biden’s weird State of the Union shout-fest?) and delivered by eighty-year-old Robert DeNiro outside the courtroom won’t change that.

The jury has already asked to hear certain testimony again. Such a request is consistent with a hung jury, not a hanging jury. One juror is saying “So and so said such and such” while another is saying “No, he didn’t!” That’s the recipe for a hung jury.

Here’s the interesting question.

The Democrats foolishly thought their persecution/prosecution of Trump would taint him. But it instead tainted them. Since the trial began, Trump’s polling numbers have gone up, not down. They’ve managed to make Donald Trump into a martyr – no small feat.

What now? If the jury is hung, Trump will appear vindicated – by a Democrat jury in a Democrat jurisdiction. If, instead, the jury hangs him, Trump’s martyr role will be solidified.

Even if it’s the latter – the jury convicts – Trump will probably receive a probation sentence and he certainly won’t be imprisoned on these ridiculous charges before the election.

On appeal, the case is likely to be thrown out, thereby achieving both results favorable to Trump – he will be a martyr for being prosecuted/persecuted and will be vindicated on appeal.

The left always overreaches. They can’t help themselves. At the core, they’re totalitarians. They don’t want to achieve policy goals. They simply want to impose their will on the rest of us.