NEW YORK CITY: The second day of Donald Trump's unprecedented criminal trial opened in New York on Tuesday the same way the first ended, with the defendant and United States presidential hopeful being forced to watch in silence as lawyers work through the tortuous process of picking a jury.

No other ex-president in American history has been hauled before a criminal court, and the trial in an unglamorous courthouse in Manhattan comes as Trump is fighting to return to the White House in November's election.

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