The sales professional will be the jury foreperson. They also had to be broadly acceptable to both the prosecution and defense. He is the first former president to be tried in a criminal case. The underlying story of the alleged crimes pertains to a payment of $130,000 made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in late 2016. ” Potential jurors for the trial had to make it through a 42-part questionnaire. If the jury is seated quickly, the estimate would shift toward the shorter end of the range. The woman also insisted that she was able to be impartial in the case. The relatively fast progress toward seating the jury is conspicuous, given that one big question before the trial was how much the Trump team would try to slow-walk the proceedings. The Trump team argued that the woman was taking part in the celebrations, but she said she was merely documenting a historic moment in New York. Trump’s conduct in the courtroom was always going to be a central issue in his trial. The share price of the company has plunged more than 65 percent in the past three weeks. Instead, making the case for his tax and economic policies, he mocked the former president for the dismal performance of Trump Media & Technology Group on the stock market. , the city where he grew up. While the Trump drama played out in New York, Biden visited Scranton, Pa. “Trump himself appears to be studying the meme on a printed-out sheet of paper,” The New York Times’s Jonah Bromwich reported.
