Trump trial set to pick final alternate jurors for hush money case

• The New York criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump is poised to get its final five alternate jurors after a full 12-person panel was seated Thursday.
• Judge Juan Merchan expects opening arguments in the Manhattan Supreme Court trial could begin Monday.
• The fourth day of the former president's historic trial is also expected to include a hearing aimed to inform Trump about what his prosecutors could grill him on if he decides to testify under oath.

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The New York criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump is poised to get its final five alternate jurors Friday after a full 12-person panel and one alternate were seated a day earlier.

Judge Juan Merchan anticipates opening arguments in the Manhattan Supreme Court trial to begin Monday.

The fourth day of the former president's historic trial is also expected to include a hearing aimed to inform Trump about what his prosecutors could grill him on if he decides to testify under oath.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said that if Trump takes the stand, they want to challenge his credibility by asking him about his various other legal battles, including two high-profile civil judgments he has been ordered to pay in New York.

Trump in February was ordered to pay $454 million in fines and interest after a state judge found him liable for fraudulently inflating his asset values in order to boost his net worth and obtain financial perks.

In a January verdict in New York federal civil court, Trump was ordered to pay $83 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her when he denied her claims that he raped her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s. A separate federal jury previously