dude of course it does, but that's not what people are saying. it's a literal accusation of collusion, extortion, bribery, and PPP is encouraging me to close the NP2.
When you go up for Jury Duty you are asked if there's any reason to recuse you from it. Any sort of knowledge of the person being tried is reason to not have you on the jury. If you know them, do business with them, do business with their company, saw them in the news, know their name - anything that potentially taints your review of the facts of the case is instant disqualification. The fact I have any concept of who Dick is changes how I react to news about him. That's Psychology 101.