NEW YORK — A jury of 12 people and six alternates was seated on Friday in former President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case.
Shortly after the jury was seated Friday, emergency crews responded to a park across the street from the courthouse, where a person was on fire. The man was taken to a hospital where he was in critical condition in the burn unit, police said at a news conference later in the day.
“I’ve entertained your arguments in good faith, I’ve handed down decisions, but at some point, you need to accept the court’s rulings,” Merchan said during a Friday hearing. The defense has argued that three of Trump’s 2018 tweets about Michael Cohen and his 2018 financial disclosure report — all of which are publicly available — are official acts and therefore fall under presidential immunity. They also contend any testimony about official acts Trump took as president, such as the accounts of former White House staff, should be excluded.
Trump has said he wants to testify at the hush money trial, but he is not required to and can always change his mind. Robert argued for an interim stay of the trial pending a motion to have the trial venue moved outside of Manhattan. The man who set himself on fire across the street from the courthouse where Donald Trump's hush money trial is taking place is in critical condition in a burn unit, police said Friday.
The completion of the jury selection process tees up the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president for opening statements and weeks of testimony in a case charging Trump with falsifying business records to suppress stories about his sex life emerging in the final days of the 2016 election.
Her comment came as Trump lawyer Susan Necheles asked a different jury candidate several questions about her ability to fairly evaluate the credibility of a witness like ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who went to prison for lying to Congress and other crimes. After conferring briefly with the prosecution and defense, Judge Juan M. Merchan dismissed the woman from consideration.
One prospective juror said she had connections to not one but two people who’ve been in Trump’s orbit: the former president’s ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who backed Trump in 2020 but later ran against him.
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