Trump’s hush money jury will be asked about Proud Boys, QAnon and Michael Cohen

What do you do for a living? Are you married? Have you ever considered yourself a supporter of or belonged to the QAnon movement or the Proud Boys?

Those are among some of the 42 questions prospective jurors will be asked to answer in the first-ever criminal trial against a president when jury selection begins in Donald Trump’s hush money trial next week.

Considering proposed questions from Manhattan prosecutors and attorneys for the former president, New York Justice Juan Merchan compiled a “broad and exhaustive” list of questions on Monday that will consider jurors’ political beliefs and their news diets.

Prospective jurors, pulled from a pool of roughly 500 Manhattan residents, will also be asked about their educational background, their hobbies, if they read or watch certain news networks and newspapers, and if they have close friends or family members who worked with Mr Trump’s companies, his campaign or presidential administration.

Eighteen people – 12 who will decide the case against the former president, and six alternates – will ultimately be selected to serve on the jury, a process that is expected to begin on 15 April and could take several days to complete, with Mr Trump’s attorneys and prosecutors all having a say.

Mr Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with repayments to his then-lawyer Michael Cohen, who arranged a hush money scheme to prevent the release of potentially compromising stories about Mr Trump and his affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.

The case from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg surrounds allegations that Mr Trump used his business to falsely file payments as legal expenses, part of an alleged effort to quash stories that