Washington Post Reporter Gives WAY Too Much Information About Potential Trump Juror

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A reporter for the Washington Post relayed very specific details about a prospective juror in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, which began on Monday.

Jury selection commenced as the former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan. District Attorney Alvin Bragg alleges that Trump cooked his books to obscure hush money payments to conceal extramarital affairs he had before the 2016 presidential election, which he won. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Like many news outlets, the Post covered the start of the trial with a blow-by-blow of the proceedings. However, reporter David Nakamura, who covers the Department of Justice and civil rights, offered a very detailed description of a potential juror (which is not being linked to here):

The seventh prospective juror has lived on the Upper West Side for 23 years and has worked as a bookseller for six years for [REDACTED BY MEDIAITE]. He is married with two children, and his wife is a lawyer. He believes that “no one is above the law, whether a sitting president, a past president or a janitor.”

The business, which Nakamura named, is an independent establishment in Midtown.

Trump has railed against the charges against him, as well as Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the case. Both men have been the targets of death threats as the case has proceeded. Considering these threats, the high-profile nature of the case, and the sanctity of juror anonymity in the U.S. justice system, media organizations tend to avoid providing overly detailed descriptions of jurors and potential jurors that internet sleuths or other investigators could use to ascertain their identities.