E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer tried to bounce juror from Trump case because he watched Timcast IRL

Lawyer Roberta Kaplan said she was shocked to find out that the juror got his news from the podcast, calling its host Tim Pool a "right-wing, conspiratorial, conservative incel guy." Kaplan asked the judge to remove the juror from the bench, but Judge Lewis Kaplan told her it was too late.

The lawyer told Katie Couric at the Aspen Ideas Festival last month that her team had reportedly misheard the juror during the vetting process, claiming that they thought the juror said he got his news from "the temple," not Timcast IRL.

"So the first trial on behalf of E. Jean Carroll - both cases we had a jury of nine - the first jury, there was no one from New York City. This takes place in lower Manhattan, with no one from either Manhattan or The Bronx. I think a couple from Westchester and all the other jurors were north of Westchester, so this is Trump country," said Kaplan, according to a video clip uploaded to X by TENET Media.

"The random draw comes in, there's not much you can do about it. Those are the jurors you're stuck with," she continued.

"We had one guy on that jury who we found out late in the process and almost gave me a heart attack who we thought he said got his news from the temple, and I was like, "Oh, I don't know maybe he's an Orthodox Jew or something.' I couldn't figure it out. It turns out he got his news from a podcaster by the name of Tim Pool who's an incredibly right-wing, conspiratorial, conservative incel guy," said Kaplan.

The lawyer then told Couric that her team tried to get the juror removed from duty, but the judge "rightly" said to her, "It's too late. He's staying on."

According to court documents, Carroll's attorneys motioned to remove Juror No. 77 because he watched Tim Pool, who they referred to as a "notorious far-right YouTuber" who had "a role in promoting extremist personalities," such as Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, per CBS News. Despite the judge rejecting the request, the jury found Trump liable for defamation in January. The former president was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $83 million.