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Trump and his allies were quick to start lying about the jury's instructions

By Hayes Brown

Just minutes after the jury in Donald Trump's Manhattan trial exited the courtroom Wednesday to begin deliberating, the former president picked up his phone. He quickly began posting up a storm on Truth Social, the social media site he owns, about the instructions the jury had just received. And, surprising nobody, the claims he and his allies are making are entirely off base.

"I don't even know what the charges are in this rigged case — I am entitled to specificity just like anyone else," Trump posted (in all caps). "There is no crime!" But Judge Juan Merchan had spent over an hour providing the jury with detailed instructions about what their deliberations entail. They included a thorough rundown of the counts the defendant faces and the laws underpinning the charges. It's entirely possible that Trump had tuned out the details while resting his eyes, but the instructions were very clear about what the jury was deliberating.

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