By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The sputtering campaign to discredit the Trump-Russia investigation opened up a new line of attack – the demographics of the grand jury charged with handing down indictments for Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
An unnamed Trump associate and witness who “recently testified” grumbled to a New York Post columnist that the grand jury was mostly African American and looked like “a Black Lives Matter rally.”
The only white man in the room was a prosecutor.
“The grand jury room looks like a Bernie Sanders rally,” the source said. “Maybe they found these jurors in central casting, or at a Black Lives Matter rally in Berkeley.”
Eleven of the 2o jurors are black and two were wearing “peace T-shirts,” making it impossible for Trump to get “a fair shake,” the witness complained.
Following the New York Post column, Fox & Friends c0-host Brian Kilmeade joined the attack.
The grand jury is “not even emblematic of something that might be, perhaps, demographically pursuing justice,” Kilmeade said.
The demographic makeup should be no surprise. The grand jury meets Fridays in Washington D.C., where nearly half of the residents are black.
Since Mueller impaneled the grand jury in August, it has handed down indictments against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Richard Gates on charges of money laundering and conspiracy and failing to register as foreign agents.
As the investigation intensifies, so too do the attacks. Trump has referred to the probe as a political “witch hunt.”
