Judge Merchan, in directing the press not to use physical descriptors to describe jurors, complained specifically about mentioning one of the jurors had an Irish accent. "We just lost" what would have been a good juror for the case, Merchan said, after one of the jurors was excused after she told the court that she had concerns about her ability to be impartial. Merchan added: She said she was afraid and intimidated by the press, all the press. The juror who withdrew was targeted by Jesse Watters, the Fox News host, on Tuesday evening. Watters said on his show: I'm not so sure about juror No. 2.
After the hearing, Gallagher spoke with reporters about the hearing and the end of his time in Congress.
This is more just me wanting to prioritize being with my family," he said at the gaggle. "I signed up for the death threats and the late-night swatting, but they did not. And for a young family, I would say this job is really hard.
WLUK reached out to Gallagher's office about his comments on death threats and late-night swatting calls. It is still unclear if any specific incident led to his early resignation.
However, WLUK did confirm through the Brown County Sheriff's Office -- which patrols Allouez, where Gallagher lives -- a case number was assigned late last year to a swatting incident related to the congressman.
Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani recently spoke at Sheridan Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During his interview with Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer, who is also the founder of Pastors for Trump, Rudy revealed he has a hard drive filled with child pornography while retelling a story about the FBI seizing his technology. Rudy stated the FBI came to his home with an order to seize all of his electronics. For dramatic fashion, Rudy said he arranged the technology in such a way on his dining room table in order to talk about two hard drives he placed at the end of the group which he had in his possession: "The first one is Hunter Biden's hard drive, and it is edited because we didn't want people that shouldn't, see the child pornography. And the second one has the child pornography ... "
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Putin's smelly butt ---- is complaining about the courtroom being too cold. What a -----.
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