On Friday, Judge Merchan — who presided over the Stormy Daniels hush money trial — sent a letter to Trump attorney Todd Blanche and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office notifying them of a recent discovery:
The comment is attributed to a user named “Michael Anderson” whose profiledescribes himself as “a professional shit poster.”
That letter set off immediate outraged credulity among Trump allies in the media, who seized on the revelation as evidence of a jury “leak.”
Several hours later, in the dead of night, Trump appeared to respond to the letter with a single word blurted at two in the morning:
MISTRIAL!!!
The “shitposter” in question responded to the flap by posting a message reading “Take it easy… I’m a professional shitposter” and including a definition of the term: “Shitposts are generally intentionally designed to derail discussions or cause the biggest reaction with the least effort.”