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The court against Trump has selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence in the coming weeks of the trial.

It is noted that the defense and prosecution have yet to select alternate jurors for the trial, the first in history in which a former US president is a defendant in a criminal proceeding.

Judge Juan Merchant announced that opening statements from the parties could be announced at a hearing on Monday.

For months, Trump and his team of lawyers have been trying to postpone the start of the trial, but the judge has refused to allow them to do so.

Background. This is about the payment of financial compensation for silence to women who had sexual contact with the former president. Actress Stormy Daniels, in particular, received $130,000. The agreements were made by Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen before the 2016 presidential election. According to Cohen, he made all the payments on his own initiative. In March 2023, a jury in a New York court indicted Trump in the case of his involvement in bribing a porn actress.

• On Tuesday, March 26, a court in New York banned former US President Donald Trump from publicly commenting on witnesses, prosecutors, court officials and jurors in the upcoming criminal trial for bribing porn star Stormy Daniels for silence.
• On April 15, jury selection began in the trial of former US President Donald Trump in the same case.