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How Trump's Classified Documents Case Could End

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The Trump-Sympathetic Jury Pool

I think that bringing this case in Florida, like that's likely a more Trump-sympathetic terrain than like DC or Manhattan. The special counsel made this choice not just because of the venue issue, but also because it's gonna be very difficult if you can secure conviction under these circumstances with Judge Cannon. And so I'll win under these conditions, should in theory be kind of airtight, but probably Trump could accuse, you know, the prosecutors of witch-hunt no matter what. But I imagine that those things sort of came into play and yes, it's possibly a jury pool that those kind of politically-inflected arguments might resonate with.

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