Potential hush-money juror excused for comparing Trump to corruption-plagued Italian prime minister

Left: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures while speaking as he leaves an EU summit in Brussels, Friday Dec. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)/Right: Donald Trump listens during a roundtable with industry executives about reopening country after the coronavirus closures, May 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Left: Late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures while speaking as he leaves an EU summit in Brussels, Friday Dec. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe). Right: Donald Trump listens during a roundtable with industry executives about reopening country after the coronavirus closures, May 29, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

As a jury is still in the process of being selected in Donald Trump‘s criminal hush-money and election interference trial in New York, one prospective juror was dismissed after he reportedly told the court that as a native Italian, he couldn’t be impartial because the former president reminded him too much of the sex scandal-ridden former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

The New York Times noted the excusal in a post to X, formerly Twitter, midafternoon on Thursday as prosecutors under Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and defense attorneys for the former president met for the third day to select and seat jurors and alternates.

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