Trump Drops Blunt Take After Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlocks

President Donald Trump on Friday weighed in on the mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder case, calling the deaths of her three young children a “horrible tragedy” and predicting that she would face another trial.

“It’s a shame. It’s a horrible tragedy,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse.”

Trump said the case, which has captivated the nation, had been difficult to avoid because it received so much television coverage. He said Clancy would face consequences and could end up confined in a psychiatric institution or prison.

“There’ll be a price,” Trump said, adding that he believes prosecutors would bring the case to trial again and called that scenario “too bad.”

Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday after the nine-woman, three-man jury said they remained unable to reach a unanimous verdict following seven days of deliberations.

Clancy, 36, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her children: Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months, inside the family’s home in Duxbury. She pleaded not guilty.

Clancy acknowledged strangling the children with exercise bands, but her attorneys argued that severe postpartum mental illness left her unable to understand that what she was doing was wrong. Prosecutors say the killings were deliberate and that Clancy was criminally responsible.

The jury’s final note said members could not reach a unanimous decision.

“With a heavy heart we report we cannot come to a unanimous decision,” the jurors wrote.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington said he believed the jury stood 11-1 in favor of finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury’s actual vote remains unknown.

Reddington unsuccessfully sought to remove the alleged holdout, arguing that jury notes indicated the juror was refusing to follow the law. He argued the juror was “biased” against those with “debilitating mental illness.” Sullivan rejected that request and gave the defense one hour to seek emergency intervention from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court before declaring a mistrial. The state’s highest court declined to intervene.

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not announced whether prosecutors plan to retry the case. Clancy will remain at a state psychiatric hospital, according to the Associated Press.