Laura Jarrett is who announced the live on air, reading out the guilty verdict for each of the 34 counts as throngs of people cheered and jeered in the streets of New York City. Jarrett, a lawyer and legal analyst, has been covering the historic trial all along. On May 30, Trump became the first former U.
S. president to be convicted of a crime. He had to 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made by his former lawyer Michael Cohen to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election.
Jarrett distinctly remembers the moment that set her on the path to covering Trump's trial — the moment she decided to leave a safe career in law to pursue her dream of being a legal analyst on TV. “I was a six-year law associate at my law firm, and starting to think about whether I wanted to try and make partner,” she told in a September interview. "And I realized there was no path for me that I was going to enjoy long term.
" Jarrett, who was 30 at the time, knew that if she was going to change careers — it had to happen quickly. “I felt like if I didn’t jump before I had kids, I wasn’t going to have the courage to do it — and I didn’t want to get stuck,” she explains. Jarrett wanted to be a TV news legal analyst.
“I’ve always loved putting the puzzle pieces together and figuring out how to tell a complicated story in the most straightforward and compelling way as possible,” Jarrett says. With no TV ex.
