Majority of independents say Trump received ‘fair trial'
Majority of independents say Trump received ‘fair trial'
Independents are who make or break an election. Let's see if this numbers remain the same come election time.
It was more than fair. If it had been someone like us we would have went to jail for contempt.
54 to 46% is a crappy statistic to use "majority" for, but fine.
More egregious is saying that "slightly more" Republicans found Trump's trial unfair than Democrats.
4% of Democrats found the trial unfair. 86% of Republicans found that trial on fair.
82% is not a slight difference.
He lost, they don't need to inaccurately describe the results to make him lose more, it just makes it easier for journalism like this to be discredited. Even if the numbers are accurate, the descriptors are false.
I think they were trying to say slightly more Republicans found it unfair than found the verdict incorrect
Oh, thank you, you are absolutely correct.
I was baffled.
Because.........feelings.
Majority voters aren't experts in law.
Are you going to expand on that or just drop a bunch of stupid and run away?
Neither are you, thankfully.
That's not relevant.
But they are the voters, and that’s all that matters.
Are you suggesting we don’t let common folk vote? How very Platocratic of you.
Then the report is meaningless.
That's certainly true. If I may ask, what point are you trying to make?
To date, most of the news coverage around Trump has been his defense team's fumbling failures to make a compelling case.
Lemmyites are happy with this prevailing view for the time being. But if the increasingly right-wing dominated press decide to change their tune, we could easily see a "Trump is being persecuted unfairly" narrative gain ground in 2024, the same way that "Hillary Emails make her unfit for office" gained ground in the run up to 2016. Just depends on which way Jeff Bezos's WaPo, Elon Musk's Twitter, and Bill Gates's NBC decide to swing as we head into the general election season.
You're absolutely right about voters not being legal experts. And that's going to leave them increasingly vulnerable to whatever prevailing media narrative swamps them in November.