Six jurors have been selected so far for Donald Trump’s high-profile “hush money” trial.
Here are some small nuggets on the jurors.
- The foreperson — or leader of the jury — is married, lives in West Harlem, works in sales and is originally from Ireland.
- Another juror is a young black woman who has friends with opinions about Trump, but said she’s not a political person. She said that she respected that Trump “always speaks his mind.”
- An Oregon native who works as a corporate lawyer at Gunderson Dettmer. He said they enjoy hiking and running. He has lived in Chelsea for five years.
- A female software engineer who lives in Chelsea.
- A 40-year-old, Lower East Side resident who said he found Trump “fascinating and mysterious.”
“He walks into a room and he sets people off one way or another,” the juror said, who works as an IT consultant. “I find that really interesting. Really, this one guy can do all of this. Wow, that’s what I think.” - A female oncology nurse at Memorial Sloan Kettering who lives on the Upper East Side.
Twelve people, along with a few alternates, will eventually be selected to serve on the jury.
The trial originally began on Monday with screening for potential jurors — but 50 were dismissed after saying they couldn’t be fair or impartial.
Jury selection has resumed with a fresh panel of jurors to fill in the remaining seats.
This is the first time a former US president has gone to trial over criminal charges, which come from six-figure hush-money payments Trump allegedly made to ex-porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal before the 2016 election.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as a way to cover up the payments to keep Daniels and McDougal quiet about affairs the women claim they had with him.
Trump faces up to four years in prison if convicted.
The trial is expected to last about two months.
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