A jury of 12 people and six alternates were selected Friday in former President Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial in New York City. The jury of 12 New Yorkers and one alternate was seated on Thursday, and the process of picking the final five alternates wrapped up on Friday, clearing the way for opening arguments to begin as early as Monday in the first criminal trial of a former president. The jurors were selected from a pool of more than 500 prospective jurors summoned to the courthouse in lower Manhattan, with 96 of them dismissed on the first day of jury selection Monday. Most of th…