A Fox “Business” News panel on Wednesday decided to switch things up and not blow smoke up viewers’ asses by getting them amped for Hunter Biden being convicted of lying on a federal gun permit application, citing that the trial is taking place in “Biden town” and that several of the jurors have family members who have suffered from addiction… Meaning the smarter choice right now for Fox is to pre-enrage fans over a “two-tiered justice system” rather than guarantee a “win.” This isn’t just right wing media being “circumspect” either as this morning Daily Beast legal contributor Shan Wu wrote that it appears the prosecution may’ve already lost the jury in Hunter’s trial.

In the middle of this segment you’ll notice that Fox anchor Bill Hemmer is wondering out loud why the jurors in convicted felon former President Trump’s trial haven’t come forward yet, something that Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall flagged on Tuesday, writing “Trump supporters are trotting out any number of responses to Trump’s string of felony convictions last week. One of the most perverse and malign is the demand or ‘request’ for jurors to come forward and explain their reasoning. Part of the idea is to suggest that the logic of the verdict is obscure or hard to justify and thus requires explanation. ‘Can you explain how you came to this very hard to understand verdict?'”

“Neither is the case. The logic of the verdict is very straightforward. There may be some room for debate about how the judge interpreted the relevant law. But within those interpretations the jury verdict is elementary. The other part is to suggest something odd or suspicious in the fact that none of the jurors have yet gone public in the press. It’s an apt illustration of the mix of disingenuousness and predation that is at the heart of Trumpism,” Marshall continued in the piece, noting it was an obvious play to get these people to willingly paint a target on their backs for MAGA terrorists.