A full 12-person jury has been sworn in for ex-US President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in New York City.

“We have our jury,” Justice Juan Merchan declared after seven men and five women were selected for the panel. Two jurors had to be excused earlier.

Some thought jury selection might take weeks, but things moved quickly after Mr Trump’s team ran out of challenges.

The court could hear opening arguments as soon as Monday.

The trial, the first ever in which a former US president is the defendant, stems from a hush-money payment to a porn star.

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    7 months ago

    That was what made me suggest the rest will. And it will happen in his other cases too. There is a Russian hacker army at the ready.

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      Not even Russian hackers, just bored MAGAts who know how to work a few websites. If you know a few key pieces of information, you can find pretty much anyone in the US with relative ease.

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          I mean, you really don’t need the names, if you can narrow it down to say, every 34 year old black woman working at theaters in Detroit that’s that’s maybe 20 people tops and likely closer to 5. You could easily harass 5-20 locals on your own and MAGA likes it’s flock mentality. If they’re MAGA they’ll just join in, if they’re not they’re dangerous antifa terrorists and it’s god trumps divine order to ruin their lives.

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          That will take Putin.

          Why do people assume a guy on the opposite side of the world has more leverage than the majority party of the country the case is happening in?

          I swear to God, you wouldn’t even know the GOP base exists the way people talk

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      The judge has since specifically prohibited press from disclosing employer information, so it seems les s likely.