Donald Trump’s hush money trial | Full jury of 12 people and 6 alternates is seated in New York
The Hindu
Former President Donald Trump faces a criminal trial in New York over hush money payments, with potential political implications.
A full jury of 12 people and six alternates was seated on April 19 in Donald Trump's hush money case, drawing the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president a step closer to opening statements.
Lawyers spent days quizzing dozens of New Yorkers to choose the panel that has vowed to put their personal views aside and impartially judge whether the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is guilty or not. The jury includes a sales professional, a software engineer, an English teacher and multiple lawyers.
The trial will place Mr. Trump in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks, forcing him to juggle his dual role as criminal defendant and political candidate against the backdrop of his hotly contested race against President Joe Biden. It will feature salacious and unflattering testimony his opponent will no doubt seize on to try to paint him as unfit to return as commander in chief.
The case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accuses Trump of falsifying business records to suppress stories about his sex life emerging in the final days of the 2016 election.
It centers on a $130,000 payment that Mr. Trump's lawyer and personal fixer Michael Cohen made shortly before the 2016 election to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the race's final days.
Prosecutors say Mr. Trump obscured the true nature of the payments in internal records when his company reimbursed Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2018 and is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution.
Mr. Trump has denied having a sexual encounter with Daniels, and his lawyers argue that the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses.
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