Juror dismissed from hush money trial said seeing Trump in person was 'jarring'

A juror who was dismissed from Donald Trump's hush money trial has described seeing the former president in person in a court as a "jarring" experience.

"It was odd. It was such an interesting experience because it’s … I had never seen him in person before, you know. And when you see someone blown up so larger than life on the media for so many years — to see them in person is very jarring," said dismissed juror Kara McGee.

"And you get the sense that it’s like, ‘Oh, this is just another guy.’ And also he sees me talking about him, which is bizarre," she continued.

"It made the whole thing feel more real in a way because, I guess — when you’re on any jury, it’s, you have elements of that person’s future in your hands. So whether it was Trump or whether it was some stranger off the street in Manhattan who I’d never heard of before. If you commit to sitting on the jury, you can change that person’s life forever," McGee added.

Do you think that the jurors selected for the trial will be feeling the same way?

"I feel a sense of duty with my job, and I would worry about how thinking about that would affect how present I was for the case," McGee had said in the courtroom, which led to her dismissal.