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What will life look like for jurors after the Trump trial?

In the wake of Trump's conviction in a Manhattan court, many players involved have expressed their own reactions to the verdict.

Here's how Trump himself said it: "It's my honor to be doing this. It really is. It's a very unpleasant thing, to be honest. But it's a great, great honor."

And there are others who might share that sentiment, namely the 12 New Yorkers who voted to convict the former president of 34 counts of falsified business records.

Their identities were not disclosed publicly in an effort to protect their privacy.

Trump hasn't directly attacked the jury. But he did imply that the pool, selected from democratically-leaning Manhattan, was biased against him, complaining that they, "Wouldn't give us a venue change," in favor of a district that he had higher approval ratings in during elections.

And his followers online have taken it upon themselves to threaten jurors with everything from doxxing to death threats.

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Earning the ire of Trump's fans.

There are plenty of Americans in public-facing roles who have been forced to deal with the repercussions of getting on Trump's bad side.

Like Maine's Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who removed Trump from the Republican presidential primary ballot – which she said state law required her to do.

Eventually that decision was reversed by the Supreme Court. But before that happened, Bellows told NPR her house was swatted, or targeted by a hoax 911 call.

"I stand by doing my job, but the response, the threats of violence and threatening communications, have been unacceptable,"

Read more on npr.org