Stage is now set for opening statements in what is a first criminal trial of a US president, with 12 jurors seated ahead of planned hearing to determine scope of prosecution's cross-examination should Trump testify.
Stage is now set for opening statements in what is a first criminal trial of a US president, with 12 jurors seated ahead of planned hearing to determine scope of prosecution's cross-examination should Trump testify.Trump has spent the week sitting quietly in the courtroom as lawyers pressed potential jurors on their views about him in a search for any bias that would preclude them from hearing the case.
The jury, which includes a software engineer, investment banker, English teacher and multiple lawyers, took final shape after lawyers spent days quizzing dozens of potential jurors on whether they can impartially judge the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Trump, meanwhile, is using the prosecution as a political rallying cry, casting himself as a victim while juggling his dual role as criminal defendant and presidential candidate.Just after the jury was seated, emergency crews responded to a park outside the courthouse, where a man had set himself on fire. The man took out pamphlets espousing conspiracy theories and spread them around the park before dousing himself in a flammable substance and setting himself aflame, officials said.
"This Trial is a Long, Rigged, Endurance Contest, dealing with Nasty, Crooked People, who want to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY," he wrote on Friday on social media.The trial centers on a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer, made to adult movie actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the final days of the 2016 race.
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