Just before 10 a.m. Monday, a jury of 18 every-day New Yorkers filed into the Manhattan courtroom where former President Donald Trump sat at the defense table.
“Members of the jury, we are about to proceed with the outset of the trial of Donald J. Trump,” pronounced Judge Juan Merchan.
As Merchan began instructing the jury on their critical role over the next few weeks, Trump, the defendant, sat flanked by his legal team, occasionally looking down and slightly shifting in his chair.
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