It is in diverse, densely populated South Florida that a jury of Donald Trump’s peers will be called upon to judge his innocence or guilt. The complicated feelings about Trump and the case against him reflect the complicated politics of the state.
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It is in diverse, densely populated South Florida that a jury of Trump’s peers will be called upon to judge his innocence or guilt if the case ever goes to trial, although the exact trial location and jury pool have not been determined. All of this should offer some comfort to members of Trump’s defense team, who know it takes only one vote to result in a hung jury. And many South Floridians, like Americans elsewhere in the country, believe that Trump is a victim of unfair treatment by powerful forces on the political left.
Many of South Florida’s Cuban Americans learned the hard way, during and after the Cuban Revolution, about the impact of politics on even apolitical lives. And for some of the conservatives among them, like Modesto Estrada, a retired businessperson who arrived in Miami 18 years ago, Trump is worth supporting as a powerful brake on Democrats and liberal policies that Estrada said were “ruining the country” by discouraging people from working.
Dominguez, an art conservator who has lived in Miami for 13 years, called Trump an “embarrassment,” adding, “I think he’s going to go to jail, but I don’t know if that’s wishful thinking.”
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