Trump on Trial: “We have our jury”

Twelve New Yorkers have been chosen to decide the Manhattan criminal case against Donald Trump. 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After some early drama, resulting in the dismissal of two previously seated jurors, Justice Juan Merchan swore in 12 Manhattanites today, completing the panel that will be asked to render a verdict in the first criminal trial of a former American president. “We have our jury,” said the judge at 4:35 p.m. Merchan has signaled that he wants lawyers for both sides to prepare their opening statements for Monday morning. There could still be roadblocks: Several alternates remain to be selected tomorrow, and as this morning’s loss of two jurors illustrates, jurors can sometimes be excused after they have already been seated. Still, during voir dire this week, prosecutors and the defense have given some hints about what their opening statements and subsequent arguments will be. Voir dire is the part of jury selection in which lawyers directly question potential jurors, trying to detect any beliefs or biases that could help or harm their cases. Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, quickly mentioned the elephant in the room (an appropriate metaphor, it would seem, for the presumptive Republican nominee for president). “No one is suggesting that you can’t be fair juror because you’ve heard of Mr. Trump,” Steinglass said today. “We don’t expect you to have been living under a rock for the last eight years.” [Joshua Steinglass walks down a hallway through a small crowd.] “This case is about whether this man broke the law,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, told potential jurors. Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times But he added that the case had “nothing to do with your personal politics.” “It’s not a referendum on the Trump presidency or a popularity contest or any indication of who you plan to vote for in November,” he said. Trump, 77, is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to his attempt to cover up a sex scandal involving a porn star, Stormy Daniels, before the 2016 election. And that — and that alone, Steinglass said — is what prosecutors intend to drill into jurors’ heads. “This case is about whether this man broke the law,” Steinglass said, as Trump looked on. “Did he falsify business records in order to cover up an agreement to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election?” Prosecutors also seem likely to acknowledge possible weaknesses of their case, including several witnesses with unsavory pasts. That includes Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to breaking [campaign finance and other federal laws](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRoBBvfP0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOC8wOC8yMS9ueXJlZ2lvbi9taWNoYWVsLWNvaGVuLXBsZWEtZGVhbC10cnVtcC5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTMwNSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90b3RfMjAyNDA0MTgmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTIwNTMxJm5sPXRydW1wLW9uLXRyaWFsJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNjQxNjEmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmYg35YhZiFrbENSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~). Steinglass admitted some of their witnesses have “baggage.” “Several of the witnesses have in the past publicly denied many of the same facts that they are going to testify to here,” he said on Tuesday. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-universal-0) ADVERTISEMENT [Ad](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRoBBvfP0ScaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9OTg2NTYyJmxpPVRPVCZtPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnA9VE9UXzIwMjQwNDE4JnRlPTEmbmw9dHJ1bXAtb24tdHJpYWwmZW1jPWVkaXRfdG90XzIwMjQwNDE4VwNueXRCCmYg35YhZiFrbENSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) “It’s also not a referendum on whether you like the witnesses,” Steinglass continued, asking the prospective jurors if they could “separate believability from likability.” The question of fairness Trump denies any sexual encounter with Daniels and also denies the charges against him, calling them a “witch hunt” devised by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, and other Democrats. And in questioning jurors, and describing their arguments, Trump’s defense team seems intent on [emphasizing fairness](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRoBBvfP0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wNC8xNi9ueXJlZ2lvbi90cnVtcC1qdXJ5LXNlbGVjdGlvbi1mYWlybmVzcy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTMwNSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90b3RfMjAyNDA0MTgmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTIwNTMxJm5sPXRydW1wLW9uLXRyaWFsJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNjQxNjEmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmYg35YhZiFrbENSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) in what they see as a profoundly unfair prosecution. “This is extraordinarily serious,” said Todd Blanche, the former president’s lead attorney, on Tuesday. “It’s extraordinarily important to President Trump that we know that we’re going to get a fair shake.” [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-universal-0) ADVERTISEMENT [Ad](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRoBBvfP0ScaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9OTg2NTY3JmxpPVRPVCZtPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnA9VE9UXzIwMjQwNDE4JnRlPTEmbmw9dHJ1bXAtb24tdHJpYWwmZW1jPWVkaXRfdG90XzIwMjQwNDE4VwNueXRCCmYg35YhZiFrbENSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) Susan Necheles, another defense lawyer, echoed this today, saying that she understood people had “strong feelings,” but that they needed to set those aside. “The problem with biases is they color the way we look at the world,” she said, pressing prospective jurors to honestly assess if any such biases were “going to affect how you look the evidence, even if you want to be fair.” Both Blanche and Necheles repeatedly asked how prospective jurors felt about Trump, suggesting that one of the defense’s biggest worries is the former president’s reputation. In some of his final words to potential jurors on Tuesday, Blanche asked “whether you can accept the burden from now until the end that President Trump is innocent — innocent — until such time that you go back to deliberate.” “Can you commit, from now until the end, that will be what you come into this courtroom with every day?” Blanche said. No prospective juror objected. The prosecution will go first in openings, and soon thereafter will begin to offer its evidence — including spreadsheets, emails and texts. There will be testimony from Cohen, and Daniels may take the stand, too. Blanche and other defense attorneys are expected to aggressively attack the credibility of both. [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-universal-0) ADVERTISEMENT [Ad](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRoBBvfP0ScaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9OTg2NTU3JmxpPVRPVCZtPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3JnA9VE9UXzIwMjQwNDE4JnRlPTEmbmw9dHJ1bXAtb24tdHJpYWwmZW1jPWVkaXRfdG90XzIwMjQwNDE4VwNueXRCCmYg35YhZiFrbENSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) Indeed, Necheles made what seemed like a veiled reference to Cohen today, mentioning that there were some who wanted to get “revenge” on Trump. The title of Cohen’s 2022 book? “Revenge.” But before all that, both sides will deliver the opening remarks meant to set the stage for the weekslong trial that will follow. The trial is unprecedented: the first time a former American president has been criminally tried. But Steinglass insisted — as he is likely to next week — that Trump is “just like any other defendant in any other criminal case,” arguing that the case is actually quite simple. “This case is about the rule of law,” he said. “And whether or not Donald Trump broke it.” Here’s [the team we have reporting on the trial](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRoBBvfP4QJAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm55dGltZXMuY29tLzIwMjQvMDQvMTEvaW5zaWRlci9ob3ctdGhlLW5ldy15b3JrLXRpbWVzLWlzLWNvdmVyaW5nLXRoZS10cnVtcC1odXNoLW1vbmV5LXRyaWFsLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzA1JmVtYz1lZGl0X3RvdF8yMDI0MDQxOCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMjA1MzEmbmw9dHJ1bXAtb24tdHJpYWwmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2NDE2MSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZiDfliFmIWtsQ1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD). During the proceedings, we’ll be sending you updates more frequently, including breaking news alerts and our regular weekly analysis on Thursdays. 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Now, the company and the pair are wrangling over their stake. By Matthew Goldstein and David Yaffe-Bellany](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRoBBvfP0ToaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wNC8xOC9idXNpbmVzcy90cnVtcC1tZWRpYS1vd25lcnNoaXAtZmlnaHQuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zMDUmZW1jPWVkaXRfdG90XzIwMjQwNDE4Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTEyMDUzMSZubD10cnVtcC1vbi10cmlhbCZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTY0MTYxJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpmIN-WIWYha2xDUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) [[Donald J. Trump, seen on Jan. 6, 2021, on a stage outside the White House with American flags behind him and a crowd in front. 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