The jury has been sworn in at Trump’s hush cash trial, as arguments may start on Monday.
NBC’s Lisa Rubin reported:
NEW: As I predicted earlier in the present day, we now have a jury of 12 and one alternate. We’re transferring in to the alternate course of; Merchan has directed that everybody remaining from in the present day’s pool of 96 be included on this subsequent spherical of jury questionnaires and voir dire.
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) April 18, 2024
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MSNBC’s Deadline: White Home mentioned the timeline going ahead, “We have to still get through the alternates tomorrow. And I’m gonna say very carefully, the jury has been sworn in. Some could come in tomorrow and say they’ve had a change of mind and that they’re worried about it and we could be back to ten. That’s what happens is very much still in flux. But right now we have a jury and then we’ll see how we are at the end of the day. And if that process goes is it’s been going, it looks like we could have opening arguments Monday morning and a reminder that the, the, the court on Monday sits until two and same on Tuesday and then it’s dark on Wednesday. So that’s kind of gonna be the, if it goes ahead Monday morning.”
Video:
The jury has been sworn in for Trump’s trial, and if they are not any extra delays, arguments may start on Monday. pic.twitter.com/6Q38KXlaPO
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 18, 2024
Opening arguments may start on Monday, and when that ball begins rolling, Trump strikes nearer to being convicted. Except extra jurors ask to be excused, the trial is properly on its option to taking place. Trump has expressed publicly his belief that he would get some rulings in his favor that would prevent the Manhattan trial from ever happening.
Trump was improper. The ex-president goes to face trial, and he may quickly be the primary ex-president in US historical past to be convicted.
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