On trial off-day, Trump complains about jury selection process for his criminal case [View all]

Source: NBC News

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday ripped the jury selection process for his historic New York criminal trial, the day after the first seven jurors were selected out of a pool of nearly 100 people.

Posting about the hush money trial on its scheduled off-day, Trump — who has repeatedly accused the judge in the case of being biased against him — suggested incorrectly that he should be entitled to unlimited strikes of potential jurors in his criminal case.

“I thought STRIKES were supposed to be 'unlimited' when we were picking our jury? I was then told we only had 10, not nearly enough when we were purposely given the 2nd Worst Venue in the Country," he wrote in a post on Truth Social, before decrying the criminal cases against him as "election interference" and part of a "witch hunt."

Under New York law, each side does have an unlimited number of strikes “for cause,” but the judge presiding over the case, Juan Merchan, can decide whether or not that cause is worthy of a strike.

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