The trial, the first ever in which an ex-US president is the defendant, may see opening arguments on Monday.

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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil
    41·
    6 months ago

    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

    • Flying Squid
      21·
      6 months ago

      I assume “a guy on the opposite side of the world” has a huge hacker army at his disposal.

      • UnderpantsWeevil
        21·
        6 months ago

        Either Russian software and networking IT folks are a generation ahead of their American peers, our army of hackers (ie, the NSA - the world’s largest employer of Mathematician PhDs) is completely asleep at the switch, or the call is coming from inside the house.

          • UnderpantsWeevil
            21·
            6 months ago

            TIL, Putin is Chinese and the Southern District of New York jury pool is a pipeline company.

            • Flying Squid
              10·
              6 months ago

              So you’re saying the NSA could definitely catch Russian hackers hacking into the New York State criminal justice system computers but not catch Chinese hackers hacking into our national infrastructure?

              Sounds like the NSA isn’t very good at its job.

              • UnderpantsWeevil
                21·
                6 months ago

                So you’re saying the NSA could definitely catch Russian hackers hacking into the New York State criminal justice system

                I’m saying that if I had to put money down on who will be outing a member of the Trump jury on my bingo card, I’d put a lot more dollars on “MAGA New Yorker who works at the New York State criminal justice office” than “Guy with a laptop in Moscow”.