After a slow start to the jury selection process on Monday, the first seven jurors have been seated on Tuesday in former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial underway in a Lower Manhattan courthouse. The selection process is anticipated to continue for several days as hundreds of New Yorkers are narrowed down to 12 jurors and six alternates. As of Tuesday afternoon, the initial group of 96 potential jurors had been reduced to 24 after a day of proceedings.
In the first round of jury selection, over half of the nearly 100 prospective jurors were swiftly excused as they expressed their inability to be fair or impartial in a trial of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in relation to alleged hush money payments made to a pornographic actress, Stormy Daniels, amid his 2016 bid for the presidency.
The jurors’…
