Jury selection began on Monday in the Trump hush money trial. It is clear that if his name was not Trump and if he was not running for president, this trial would not be going forward.
The presiding judge in this trial is New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan. He is a Democrat, a Democrat donor, and his daughter is well-known in Democrat circles as a very successful fundraiser for Democrats. All those facts need to be voiced because it goes to why this trial is happening in the first place.
As the first day of voir dire began, Judge Merchan announced that the Trump legal team requested that the former president be allowed to be excused from being in court on May 17. He asked to be allowed to travel to Florida to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation.
Merchan stated that he would not make a decision right away regarding Trump’s request to postpone the trial and…
