Trump's hush-money trial loses two jurors, judge concerned for jury security

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "Yesterday alone I had friends, colleagues and family push things to my phone regarding questioning my identity as a juror.
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.
50% : With trial dark on Wednesday, the former president and counsel returned to court on Thursday with troubling information about one of their jurors: a Lower East Side IT consultant who said that he found Trump "fascinating" and "mysterious" during voir dire.
41% : Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, charges brought last year by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
38% : "Merchan is holding a hearing on Tuesday to determine whether Trump violated the order.
27% : MANHATTAN (CN) -- Jury selection in Donald Trump's hush-money trial got off to a tumultuous start Thursday morning after two of the seven selected jurors were dismissed by the court, while Trump was chided again by prosecutors for testing the limits of his gag order.
26% : Since then, Steinglass claims that Trump has violated the order "seven more times.
25% : Trump quoted Watters in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, in what prosecutors say is the latest violation of his court-imposed gag order.
25% : "They are catching undercover liberal activists lying to the judge in order to get on the Trump jury," Trump wrote, attributing the quote to Watters.
25% : Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges, and denies ever having a relationship with Daniels.
24% : The court lost another juror on Thursday -- an oncology nurse, who previously told the court that she didn't really have an opinion of Trump, but that "no one is above the law."
22% : Prosecutors on Monday moved to sanction Trump for other breaches of his gag order, which is supposed to prevent him from publicly attacking witnesses, jurors and others involved in the case.
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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