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After Justice Juan Merchan gave the jury detailed instructions, deliberations officially got underway in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.’s criminal hush money/falsified business records case against former President Donald Trump. Jurors are now deliberating a case that is unprecedented in U.S. history. Outside the courthouse, Trump angrily railed against Merchan and claimed that it would be impossible for him to get a fair trial. Trump, with defense attorney Todd Blanche standing beside him, told reporters, “I would say, in listening to the charges from the judge — who, as you know…

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