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Jurors Finish First Day Of Deliberations In Trump Hush Money Trial — Update
After a marathon day of closing arguments in Donald Trump’s New York hush-money trial, jurors are poised to begin deliberating the former president’s fate today on 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records — the last phase of an unprecedented case pitting Trump against the city and state where he made his name. The jury […]
The actual time those jurors spent with the case inside Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom was a less imposing-sounding 17 days, from opening arguments to Tuesday’s closing summations. He’s delivered twice-daily rants to hallway pool reporters — with Blanche at his side and a gallery of supporters looking on — about a “rigged” case and a “conflicted” judge with Democratic family ties. He’s tested the limits of Merchan’s gag order against public statements about trial witnesses, jurors and others, and he complained about the “icebox” of a courtroom on the 15th floor he’s forced to sit in while he wants to be somewhere else campaigning for president.
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