Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court during jury deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024. – The New York accents of court reporters reading testimony. A juror's facial expression. And tea leaves — plenty of tea leaves.
The phrase “tea leaves” — a cliched reference to predicting an event's outcome based on signs that may or may not mean anything — has been heard more times than on a Bigelow's factory floor. But MSNBC analyst Danny Cevallos cautioned that there could be an entirely different interpretation — that perhaps a juror who is leaning toward acquittal remembered something from the testimony that bolstered that opinion, and wanted fellow jurors to hear it.On Fox News, former prosecutor and congressman Trey Gowdy said he would look at the eyes and expressions of jurors during such read-backs for some indication of who considers that information most important.
It was different over at Fox, where lawyer Phil Holloway complained of a “rogue” judge who was trying to “weaponize” a trial to influence a presidential election. Fox and Newsmax carried Trump's live comments Thursday morning about a “rigged” trial, while CNN and MSNBC ignored them. Analysts at outlets aimed at conservative viewers frequently downplayed the case against him.
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