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.

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        That was what made me suggest the rest will. And it will happen in his other cases too. There is a Russian hacker army at the ready.

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          Not even Russian hackers, just bored MAGAts who know how to work a few websites. If you know a few key pieces of information, you can find pretty much anyone in the US with relative ease.

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              I mean, you really don’t need the names, if you can narrow it down to say, every 34 year old black woman working at theaters in Detroit that’s that’s maybe 20 people tops and likely closer to 5. You could easily harass 5-20 locals on your own and MAGA likes it’s flock mentality. If they’re MAGA they’ll just join in, if they’re not they’re dangerous antifa terrorists and it’s god trumps divine order to ruin their lives.

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              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

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                  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.

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          The judge has since specifically prohibited press from disclosing employer information, so it seems les s likely.

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        Literally talks about it already happening in the article.

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      Won’t take long for the media to start slandering them I’m sure.

      But in all seriousness, I hope they are being given some measure of protection considering how rabid Trumps supporters get.

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      That’s what the backups are for. You can have a hung jury but the others can boot one person out. It’s happened on a jury my wife was on and then they just brought in the backup and continued as normal

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        Yeah, even once deliberation starts if it’s clear you’re just in there not deliberating in good faith they’ll tell the judge and they can boot you and assign an alternate.

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        No shit? I didn’t know they could do that. I thought backups were only for if someone got sick or something.

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      Might be more than one in there. They ask you all sorts of questions to see if you would be biased, most people would be truthful but there’s a certain type of person who doesn’t have any qualms about lying and it’s the same type that reevers the defendant here.

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      They were supposed to select jurors based of no allegiance to the defendant.