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Lawyers in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution still must select alternate jurors for the trial, the first ever in which a former US president is the defendant. Earlier in the day, the judge overseeing the trial dismissed a juror who said she felt intimidated that some personal information was made public. Justice Juan Merchan also excused another juror after prosecutors said he may not have disclosed prior brushes with the law. Trump's outsized public presence created unique problems during the jury selection process, which started on Monday. Roughly half of the first 196 jurors screened in heavily Democratic Manhattan have been dismissed after saying they could not impartially assess the Republican politician's guilt or innocence. Trump's criticism of witnesses, prosecutors, the judge and their relatives
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Thank you very much.
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I wanted to just say that I'm supposed to be in New Hampshire, I'm supposed to be in Georgia, I'm supposed to be in North Carolina, South Carolina, I'm supposed to be in a lot of different places campaigning.
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But I've been here all day on a trial that really is a very unfair trial. These are all stories, this is over the last few days, from legal experts, this is Wall Street Journal editorial, but all of these are stories from legal experts saying how this is not a case.
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The case is ridiculous. This is another one, the case is a ridiculous Trump indictment.
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It's missing fraud, there is no fraud. All of these stories are stories of how, and these are done by the experts and editorials, brag, falsify business record, and he falsifies them. He's the one. He's the fraud.
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Take a look at all of these are stories, you see them here.
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Bragg's indictment even falls as an indictment. All of them.
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Bragg crosses the Rubicon, indicting Trump on that sense.
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The whopping outrage in Trump's indictment. It's a whopping outrage, and it is an outrage. Everybody's outraged by it.
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You know, we had 18 DA or DA types who were close.
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18 or 19 or 21, they counted all their...
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And in the meantime, you have murders going on right outside in New York.
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Look at this. National Review.
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Another National Review.
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Jonathan Turley, Greg Jarrett, Andrew McCarthy.
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Every one of them saying they caught a zombie case, meaning it is no case.
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And they say it's unconstitutional, they don't think the case is...
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These are all stories that...
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have taken place over the last few days.
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Take a look at this.
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DA Bragg wants us to believe that his pursuit of Trump isn't political.
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Of course it's political.
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And they're doing it for Biden.
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They're doing this for Joe Biden.
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Even the Rolling Stone, no friend of mine.
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They don't like it since...
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They don't like Bragg's chances on this case.
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That's a disgrace.
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That's a nice headline. I'd like to read that one too.
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But everyone who lies about the case, justice is on trial.
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You know, the whole world is watching this New York scam.
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The trial spectacle begins.
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That's Wall Street Journal.
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It's a spectacle.
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Every one of these...
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America is a third world country.
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Daily Caller.
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Wow.
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That's New York Magazine even.
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All of them that just came out.
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These are all, every single one.
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I haven't seen one that says it's a good trial.
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It's political.
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This is a Wall Street Journal editorial.
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And it's a shame.
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It's a shame.
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And I'm sitting here for days now.
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From morning...
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Everybody was freezing in there.
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And all for this.
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And this is your result.
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Look at that.
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Each one of them is sorry.
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And it's very unfair.
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Very bad thing.
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Very bad thing.
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The whole world is watching this hoax.
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You got a DA that's out of control.
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You have a judge that's highly conflicted.
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The whole thing is a mess.
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And you have the leading candidate and leading Kruka Joe Biden.
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by law. He's the one that should be in trial.
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He's a crook. You got a crooked president.
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He should be in trial with all the
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stuff he's done and his family.
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He should be in trial.
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But he's the one in charge.
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His top people are here
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working with the DA's office to make sure
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everything goes right.
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But it shouldn't go right because they have no
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case. And that's what this is all about.
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And it really is a shame.
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This country is
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devolving into a third world country
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between having no borders,
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having no justice,
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we have no justice, and having a press
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that doesn't want to cover
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the facts. So, thank you very much.
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See you tomorrow.
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The jury called you selfish.
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How did you feel?
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Well, I mean,
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my sense is,
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and I can also draw on my
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experience
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of jury duty in New York City,
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that, you know,
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the courts are proceeding as they usually do
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except they have a larger number
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of jurors that they're calling in for the voir dire
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because they know that a lot of jurors
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will be excluded by the
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lawyers and also a lot of jurors won't be able to do
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it because of scheduling and
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things like that as well.
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Or discomfort.
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And the like.
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And, you know,
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the expectation was that they'd have to go through
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a lot of jurors until they could find,
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you know, finalize the jury pool.
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And they seem to
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be proceeding as would
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normally occur in a trial in New York
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except with the added complication of this
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particular case.
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But it's slower because, you know,
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because of the difficulty
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in finding, you know,
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fair jurors. Okay, so
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this were a normal
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case by
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today. Given that they
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started late, you know,
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by today they'd probably have
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a jury in place for a normal case.
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And then, of course, there might
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be an adjournment until they actually start the
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trial. It might not.
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It might not start immediately after the jury's
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selected. They might wait a day or two.
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For the
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underway on Monday, for the actual
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trial to get underway on Monday, they
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would have to finalize
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the jury.
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And I suspect
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that's not likely. And also, even if
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they pick a jury today, who knows
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what's going to happen over the weekend as
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some jurors get second thoughts about
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participating. They do have
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alternates. But I think for this trial,
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you want to start the trial with 12
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jurors and six alternates in place
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who are going to stick with it for a while
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so that if any juror
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leaves, the alternates will be able to
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fill in.
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Okay.
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It's difficult because I think
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in the 튀
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There's very little about these legal proceedings short of Trump getting acquitted
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that could shift the balance of good news to bad news in favor of good news.
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Things that will come out during the trial, it's hard to believe how these things will play out
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in a positive way toward Trump.
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He can leave the courtroom and go to parts of the city to campaign and get coverage and so forth,
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go to bodegas and the like to emphasize issues of crime and the southern border and so forth.
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But the things that could be revealed in the course of the court proceedings
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would seem to be things that are more likely to look embarrassing for him rather than not.
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A not guilty verdict, he'll use that as vindication that basically all these prosecutions were political.
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In nature.
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And he really hadn't done anything wrong.
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And he'll basically emphasize that.
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That would be a win for him.
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And that could turn things politically more in his favor.
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And if he's found guilty, obviously there will be appeals going on so it won't be over yet.
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But in terms of being found guilty, this is being found guilty.
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Not by any government official, but this is by a citizen jury.
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And that may have further resonance and hurt his candidacy in a way that we haven't seen.
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