Trump's historic criminal trial enters second day as jury selection continues

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : The trial is unfolding amid a presidential contest in which Trump - who is all but guaranteed to be the Republican nominee - will go head to head with Joe Biden in November.
42% : When Trump won his White House bid, he repaid Cohen with a smattering of monthly checks.
41% : Bragg's office contends that Trump, whom a grand jury indicted in spring 2023 on 34 counts of falsifying business records, was part of an alleged "catch-and-kill scheme" from August 2015 until December 2017, with his then attorney, Michael Cohen.
31% : Prosecutors said Trump schemed to keep these alleged liaisons under wraps, so he would not suffer in the 2016 presidential election.
24% : The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, brought the case against Trump, which involves purported payments aimed at keeping secret his alleged affairs with the adult film star Stormy Daniels and the Playboy model Karen McDougal.
22% : Trump charged with 34 felony counts over alleged payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougalDonald Trump's Manhattan hush-money trial enters its second day on Tuesday morning with continued jury selection.
18% : As Trump allegedly framed these payments as recompense for legal consulting, he "made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise", prosecutors contended.

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