Can Trump get a fair trial?

Here’s a chilling thought that’s recently come to plague me: seating jurors for any trial of Trump.

Despite what the columnists and commentators say about unlikelihood, many of us have a powerful yearning to watch the disgraced former president do the perp walk. We long to see him charged and convicted. We’d frame an autographed portrait of him behind bars. We want him charged, convicted, and incarcerated on as many counts as possible. We want to see a sentence of a thousand years.

BUT.

Trial = accused + charges + prosecutors + defense + witnesses + judge and jury.

Consider the jury.

Jurors are being selected for the Trump Organization tax trial. Some are failing to meet the “unbiased” standard. Some have already been dismissed because they acknowledged their bias against Trump. One simply said, “I hate Trump.”

If those many potential cases come to trial and the Trump-haters are excused for honestly announcing their bias, who’s left?

Right. Trump-lovers who don’t mind lying to get empaneled.

So who’s going to convict him of all those crimes that we know he committed? A jury box full of people who haven’t already convicted him in their minds?

How is any trial of Donald Trump going to be fair?