NEW YORK — A Trump associate facing a Brooklyn federal trial is pushing to disqualify dozens of potential jurors who roasted the former president as the public figure they least admire — calling him “divisive, ignorant, racist, misogynistic and dislikable in every way,” according to new court filings.
Lawyers for Thomas Barrack, who chaired former President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, want a judge to automatically dismiss prospective jurors who didn’t mince words when asked on a screening questionnaire if they had “any strong feelings” about the 2016 presidential campaign of Trump or his administration.
Barrack, 75, goes on trial in Brooklyn Federal Court on Sept. 19 on charges he tried to criminally influence Trump’s foreign policy positions to benefit the United Arab Emirates. Trump has not been charged in the case.
