evidence: Social media posts echoed by former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that New York Judge Juan M. Merchan told the jury in his hush money trial that they didn’t need a unanimous verdict to convict Trump. [...] "How is this even a fair trial?" reads one Instagram post that had received more than 13,500 likes as of Thursday. "The judge just announced that the jury does not even have to be unanimous in their judgment to convict President Trump! This entire process was rigged from the start." An X post reads: "Judge Merchan has told the jury that they do NOT NEED unanimity to convict. They do not have to all agree on what occurred. 4 can agree on one crime, 4 on a different one, and the other 4 on another. He will treat 4-4-4 as a UNANIMOUS verdict."