Day two of Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial gets underway on Tuesday after 60 of 96 potential jurors said they could not be impartial after proceedings began yesterday.
The arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records to stifle stories about his sex life continues on Tuesday.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors say the alleged fraud was part of an effort to keep salacious — and, Trump says, bogus — stories about his sex life from emerging during his 2016 campaign.
The charges centre on payments Trump’s company made to Cohen to reimburse him for $130,000 he paid to keep Daniels from going public, a month before the election, with her claims of a sexual encounter with the married mogul a decade earlier.
Prosecutors say the payments to Cohen were falsely logged as legal fees to cloak their actual purpose. Trump’s lawyers say the disbursements indeed were legal expenses, not a cover-up.
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