Prosecutors will inevitably face a stark reality when seeking 12 impartial jurors at a trial: Florida’s increasingly right-wing politics.
The decision to prosecute Donald Trump in South Florida appears to be centered around keeping the case airtight and avoiding a potential retrial—but it’s also one that could cost the Department of Justice a conviction at all.
In court—where Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith will try to prove that Trump illegally kept classified documents and engaged in a coverup—that means politics will be impossible to avoid, an especially daunting task in a forum where a single Trump-loyal juror can cause a mistrial. In a case involving Top Secret records and other national secrets, the natural home might seem like the seat of the nation’s government in Washington, D.C., which is indeed where Smith initially empanelled a grand jury to subpoena Trump for documents.
“The culture down there is: As long as I'm doing OK and he was doing good for the city, he was a good mayor,” Alcalde said.“They like to look at results. And they think Trump did a good job with the economy, and the lies he's been spewing won’t matter. Some hardcore Trump people will think this is the government being the corrupt one, not him,” she said.
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