Opening arguments for former President Donald Trump’s so-called “hush-money” trial will start next Monday after a full jury and alternates were selected on Friday.
“We have our full panel,” Judge Juan Merchan said in court after the final six alternate jurors were selected. They will serve alongside a panel of 12 jurors.
Reacting on social media, President Trump wrote that the judge is “‘railroading’ me, at breakneck speed, in order to completely satisfy his ‘friends.’” He also argued that the gag order that was imposed on the judge that prohibits the former president from speaking about certain individuals who are connected to the case is unfair….
