WorldNetDaily’s Peter LaBarbera complained in a Sept. 6 article:
A new poll of Washington, D.C. residents finds than an overwhelming majority, 64%, would vote to find Trump guilty in his upcoming March trial over subverting the 2020 election, while only 8% would find him innocent.
Twenty-eight percent of the 500 people polled were unsure, according to the Emerson College Polling survey conducted Aug. 29-Sept. 2.
Ominous as it is for Trump’s chances of getting a fair trial, the Emerson poll understates the extreme pro-Democrat political bias in the district, with Joe Biden getting 93% of the 2020 vote.
We find it hard to believe that LaBarbera is this dumb, but surely even he knows that an entire city doesn’t judge a defendant — only 12 jurors do. And in the jury selection process, both the prosecution and defense lawyers, as well as the judge, will screen jurors and try to eliminate those who they believe cannot be impartial. Merely living in a particular city is not evidence that a prospective juror cannot be partial.
LaBarbera concluded with the sentiments of a right-wing historian:
Conservative author and retired historian Larry Schweikart echoed a sentiment of many conservatives when he cited the implications of DC’s uber-biased demographics for defendants in the J6 trials in D.C., in his own X post Wednesday: “Yeah, fair trials for all those Patriot Day J6 people.”
Yes, a guy who thinks a violent attempted insurrection is “Patriot Day” and all those who took part are automatically innocent — and who apparently also doesn’t understand how juries work — is someone who LaBarbera thinks is a trusted source.