Jury selection in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial is finally underway after hours of pretrial arguments, including a request from prosecutors to fine Trump over social media posts they say violated a gag order. The first round of some 96 prospective jurors filed into the courtroom mid-afternoon on Monday. The trial's start marks an extraordinary moment in American history — it's the first criminal trial of any former U.S. commander-in-chief and the first of Trump's four indictments to go to trial. Trump is accused of falsifying internal business records and making payoffs to two women as part of a scheme to bury stories he worried would hurt his 2016 campaign.
