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.

      • Flying Squid
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        482 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.

        • @[email protected]
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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.

          • Flying Squid
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            32 months ago

            They can’t get the names of who is actually on the jury that way. That will take Putin.

            • @[email protected]
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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.

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        Literally talks about it already happening in the article.

    • @[email protected]
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      Won’t take long for the media to start slandering them I’m sure.

      But in all seriousness, I hope they are being given some measure of protection considering how rabid Trumps supporters get.

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      I’ve got a spot bet on at least three of them being accused of pedophile conspiracies before the case is done