Washington: Judge Juan Merchan has sworn in seven jurors out of the 12 needed to proceed with the trial in Donald Trump’s “hush money” case, a news report said.
The selected jurors include an oncology nurse, a corporate lawyer, a software engineer, and a salesperson, among others, the CNN reporting from the courtroom in New York said on Tuesday.
“President Trump speaks his mind, and I’d rather …than someone who’s in office and you don’t know what they’re thinking,” the report quoted a young woman—an English teacher—as saying during a questioning session before being sworn in as a juror.
About a dozen potential jurors have been dismissed after they admitted that they could not be impartial toward Trump or were unable to skip several weeks of work due to jury duty.
On Monday, Trump arrived at the Manhattan court to face his first day of trial in the case involving alleged hush money paid via his attorney Michael Cohen to pornography actress Stormy Daniels and others from August 2015 to December 2017.
Last year, Trump pleaded not guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with hush money.
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