Legal expert explains the jury scenario that would put Trump 'in a lot of trouble'

The process of jury selection for Donald Trump's first criminal trial began in Manhattan Monday.

A panel of 12 jurors will eventually be tasked with deciding whether the former president — and 2024 GOP nominee — falsified business documents in order to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

The Washington Post reports the jury selection process is "a complex, highly choreographed affair that’s likely to take weeks."

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The Post also notes:

Prosecutors and Trump’s defense team will have an opportunity to question prospective jurors about their responses and can huddle with the judge and juror in a sidebar — so others in the room can’t hear — to discuss any private issues that come up. Each side will be vying for jurors they believe will render a verdict in their favor and looking for strategic ways to cut those who might not.

During the latest episode of MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki, lawyer and former United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norm Eisen explained how the jury selection could ultimately land the MAGA hopeful in a pool of trouble.

"They come back tomorrow, it's part of a legal process," Psaki noted, asking Eisen, "What are you watching for?"

The former ambassador replied, "The tug-of-war, which is going to start developing as both sides have a half an hour to question each juror, so that is going to be a effort of Donald Trump and his team, led by Todd Blanche, to knock out the typical Manhattan juror, and to try to embrace a jury pool that looks like Donald Trump's voters. They're not gonna get that in Manhattan, Jen."

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Eisen emphasized, "They want just one — one angry juror — one juror, who won't follow the law, who will not follow the evidence, but this is a very shrewd judge and a good prosecution. It's the longest list of questions I've ever seen, and the judge is a sure judge of character, not just of the law. So, I think that the checks and balances are there to pick a jury that will honestly adjudicate the facts and the law, and if that happens, Donald Trump's in a lot of trouble."

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