Donald Trump trial LIVE: Follow day three of the hush money case with five ... trends now By Wills Robinson In New York For Dailymail.com and Daniel Bates In New York For Dailymail.com and Nick Allen For Dailymail.com Published: 12:08 BST, 18 April 2024 | Updated: 12:21 BST, 18 April 2024 Viewcomments Advertisement Donald Trump returns to court for day three of the historic Manhattan hush money trial. The court will restart the questioning of hundreds of prospective jurors to try and fill the final five spots on the panel of 12. The court also needs six alternatives who need to be ready as early as Monday for opening statements. The former president has denied 34 charges of falsifying business records to hide a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to cover up a affair he has denied. Follow DailyMail.com's minute-by-minute coverage from our reporters in the courtroom. Welcome to DailyMail.com's coverage of day three of Donald Trump's hush money trial: Here is where we stand with jury selection Donald Trump will return to court in New York on Thursday morning for the third day of his hush money trial. Prospective jurors will be brought into the court to be asked 42 questions in the process to take the final five spots on the panel. The court also needs six alternatives who need to be ready as early as Monday for opening statements. Seven Manhattan residents have so far been selected to decide to decide if the first former president in history to stand trial will be found guilty or not guilty of falsifying business records. He has denied trying to hide a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged an affair before the 2016 election. The court has moved quicker than expected in selecting the panel, with the judge stopping any further delaying tactics from either side. Here are the seven jurors who have been selected so far. They include a corporate lawyer, a teacher and man who called the ex-president 'fascinating'. The Manhattan judge overseeing the hush money trial has not yet made his decision, but the Trump campaign already believes the possibility of preventing the former president from attending his son's high-school graduation is political dynamite. 'F***ing with us on Barron's graduation has the potential to be the "$18M Mar-a-Lago valuation" faux pas of this trial,' a Trump insider told DailyMail.com. Earlier this year another judge in a different trial offered an $18 million valuation of Trump's Florida club, a number that the former president said was orders of magnitude lower that its true value and which has been used ever since to ridicule the outcome of a civil case. In the same way, his campaign is now looking to weaponize anything it can from the hush money trial in Manhattan. Any sign that Trump is being treated unfairly, including the courthouse's dirty bathrooms, will be turned into talking points or campaign mailers, say people familiar with the thinking. The grueling process to find five more impartial Trump jurors: Inside the unforgiving selection that saw a bookseller who listens to NPR in the shower dismissed for being too political By Rob Crilly, DailyMail.com Senior Political Reporter inside the court Prosecutor Josh Steinglass asked each of the 18 prospective jurors in front of him to look across at Donald Trump and then take a long look inside themselves and decide whether they were up to the job of deciding guilt or innocence. 'You have to be able to come back from your deliberations and look the defendant in the eye and say "guilty.' 'And only you can know that.' The defendant knew exactly where to look. He wrenched his body around to the right facing them, and delivered a penetrating glare as each in turn answered 'yes.' It made for a dramatic moment on day two of Trump's hush money trial. The former president went eye-to-eye with some of the Manhattan men and women who will deliver one of the most important verdicts in history. The president of Poland became the latest foreign leader to beat a path to Donald Trump's door on Tuesday night as the world prepares for his possible return to the White House. Andrzej Duda was greeted as an old friend as he arrived at Trump Tower, where the former president is staying as his criminal trial over alleged hush money payments gets underway in New York. The two men are long-time allies but Duda was keen to win his support for more military help to Ukraine amid continued Republican hostility to a new aid package. 'This gentleman is doing a fantastic job, the people of Poland love him, they really do,' Trump told reporters as the pair walked in. 'We had four great years together. We may have to do it again.' TOP STORIES Share or comment on this article: Donald Trump trial LIVE: Follow day three of the hush money case with five jurors still to be selected for the panel of 12 All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility