Trump Bribery Trial Begins in New York: Jury Selection Completed, Opening Arguments Set

The trial for bribery against the former President of the United States Donald Trump will begin this Monday in New York, after the jury selection process ended on Friday with the selection of six more. Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the case against Trump for bribing former porn actress Stephanie Clifford, on Thursday selected the twelve judges – seven men and five women – who will make up the jury and who came ended this Friday, setting the stage for opening arguments on Monday at 9:30 a.m. (local time), Bloomberg has reported. The process will begin after an appeals court judge in New York on Friday denied a last-minute request by the former president to stop the trial and transfer him to another place, insisting that he would not be treated fairly. The Attorney General’s Office is charging Trump with 34 felonies for allegedly forging documents, as part of a plot by which he allegedly attempted to conceal a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to buy her silence and not talking about an alleged extramarital affair before the 2016 elections he justified this payment as part of his legal expenses. The former president’s lawyers tried in vain to postpone the start of this trial, the first of several that Trump is waiting for. The former president is facing a federal case against him for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 elections, in which the current president, Joe Biden, won.