One can understand why a defendant’s legal team would like to place jurors that would potentially favor their client in the courtroom.

We all look for ways to make our job easier, and the legal profession is no exception. In fact, I have no juris degree, but I’d wager there’s an entire class on picking jurors.

But Trump’s team, in an effort to shield him from the criminal penalties he will surely face in the Stormy Daniels trial, the first criminal trial against an ex-president ever, used a particular method.

As quoted in Newsweek, a junior partner at Early, Sullivan, Wright, Gizer, & McRae, Eric Anderson said that Trump’s lawyers were looking “for people who feel aggrieved or persecuted, lack trust in government or institutions, and possess a copy of the Bible or the Left Behind series.”

Left Behind is, of course, the book series that went on to star Kirk Cameron in the movie version, and is about people who didn’t get raptured. They actually WANT religious people on the jury.

That seems counterintuitive, since the trial is about Trump paying off an adult film star so she wouldn’t tell anyone about his tryst with her while his wife was pregnant with their only child together.

That doesn’t seem like a thing I’d want the faithful to preside over. But his lawyers understand that Trump’s most ardent fans are evangelicals.

Anderson also predicted that Trump’s legal team would be looking for “[J]urors who, if they have social media, have never commented on Trump” and “people who feel they have been treated unfairly and poorly educated white people.”

The selection has concluded, including the six alternates that may be necessary if a juror gets too ill to continue or is removed from the jury for another reason. But it’s a fascinating look into the hows and whys of Trump’s fabled legal team.

It doesn’t take much to understand their reasoning. But the reasoning seems as uneducated as the jurors they sought.

Then again, one of his lawyers forgot to file a certain way so that he could get a jury trial in his NYC fraud trial, and another has been busy posting bikini pictures of herself at Mar-a-Lago.

I don’t know why jury selection was so important in this case, since all the prosecution has to do is show the evidence we’ve all already seen.