Trump's hush-money trial loses two jurors; judge lectures press over privacy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : After trial went dark on Wednesday, the former president and counsel returned to court Thursday morning with troubling information about one of their jurors: a Lower East Side IT consultant who said during voir dire that he found Trump "fascinating" and "mysterious."
51% : "I definitely have concerns now, one of them especially being the aspects of my identity have already been out there in public," she said before being dismissed.
51% : " Merchan will hold a hearing next week to determine whether Trump violated the order.
50% : "Yesterday alone, I had friends, colleagues and family push things to my phone regarding questioning my identity as a juror.
41% : Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, charges brought last year by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
27% : Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and denies ever having a relationship with Daniels.
26% : Since then, Steinglass claims that Trump has violated the order "seven more times.
24% : The court lost another juror on Thursday -- an oncology nurse who previously told the court she didn't really have an opinion of Trump but that "no one is above the law."
24% : On Monday, the government moved to sanction Trump for other breaches of his gag order, which bars him from publicly attacking witnesses, jurors and others involved in the case.
22% : MANHATTAN (CN) -- Jury selection in Donald Trump's hush-money trial got off to a tumultuous start Thursday as two of the seven selected jurors were dismissed by the court and Trump was chided again by prosecutors for testing the limits of his gag order.
18% : In a Truth Social post on Wednesday Trump quoted Watters as saying, "They are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge in order to get on the Trump jury.
13% : Bragg claims Trump instructed his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who claims to have been involved in an extramarital sexual relationship with Trump, to avoid bad press while making his first presidential run.

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