First 7 Jurors In Trump’s Hush-Money Trial Seated
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Following a protracted questionnaire phase and hours of questioning, seven jurors have been seated in Donald Trump's hush money trial. The jurors were picked by process of elimination. Several other possible jurors were dismissed earlier in the day after saying they could not be impartial or had other commitments. The trial's first day ended Monday with no jurors selected. Dozens of people were dismissed after saying they didn’t believe they could be fair. The criminal trial is the first of Trump’s four indictments to go to trial. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records and making payoffs to two women as part of a scheme to bury stories he worried would hurt his 2016 campaign.
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A poll shows the first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime. The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds only about one-third of U.S. adults think Trump did something illegal in the hush money case for which jury selection began Monday. Close to half think the Republican ex-president did something illegal in the other three criminal cases pending against him. About half of Americans would consider Trump unfit to serve as president if he's convicted of falsifying business documents to hide hush money payments to porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies any extramarital sexual encounter with Daniels.
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A poll shows the first criminal trial facing former President Donald Trump is also the one in which Americans are least convinced he committed a crime. The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds only about one-third of U.S. adults think Trump did something illegal in the hush money case for which jury selection began Monday. Close to half think the Republican ex-president did something illegal in the other three criminal cases pending against him. About half of Americans would consider Trump unfit to serve as president if he's convicted of falsifying business documents to hide hush money payments to porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies any extramarital sexual encounter with Daniels.
