Two jurors booted from Trump trial, including NYC nurse who said she couldn’t be ‘unbiased,’ man accused of lying about criminal past

Two of the jurors seated in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial earlier this week were dismissed Thursday — including a Manhattan nurse who said she couldn’t be “fair and unbiased.”

The former president was back in Manhattan Supreme Court after a break Wednesday as Justice Juan Merchan informed his lawyers and prosecutors that the woman, seated as Juror No. 2, raised questions about her ability to serve.

“Yesterday alone, I had friends, colleagues, and family push things to my phone, questioning my identity as a juror. I don’t think at this point I can be fair and unbiased,” the Upper East Side woman, an oncology nurse at Memorial Sloan Kettering, told the court.

The woman said she “definitely has concerns now” after her friends, family and work colleagues were able to link her to the trial through news reports that included certain biographical information.

Merchan let the woman go before chiding the media and directing them to no longer report jurors’ current or former employers.

“We just lost what probably would’ve been a very good juror for this case and the first thing she was intimidated by the press,” the judge said. “It’s become a problem.”

A second juror seated Tuesday, Juror No. 4, was also dismissed after prosecutors suggested that the man — a 40-year-old Puerto Rican who lives on the Lower East Side — may have lied about whether he committed a crime in the past.

Prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said they discovered Wednesday that a person with the same name as Juror No. 4 was arrested for tearing down political posters from the “political right” in Westchester in the 1990s.

“We did discover an article that a person with the same name had been arrested in Westchester for tearing down political advertisements,” Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass said.

Additionally, the juror’s wife was previously accused or involved in a “corruption inquiry” and deferred prosecution agreement in the 1990s with the Manhattan DA’s Office, Merchan said.

Prosecutors said they had doubts about whether the juror’s answer to question 19 — which asks if anyone close to you has ever been arrested — was “accurate.”

Trump’s side agreed further questioning of the man — who Tuesday told the court that the ex-president was “fascinating and mysterious” for his role as a cultural lightning rod — was needed.

The juror, who was told to be in court at 9:15 a.m., hadn’t shown up by the time a second group of 96 prospective panelists had been brought in to continue the selection process.

Seven jurors were chosen Tuesday, but after losing two Thursday, an additional seven remain to be selected for a total of 12. Another six alternates must also be chosen.

Merchan has said he hopes that opening statements can get underway Monday in the DA’s case accusing Trump, 77, of lying on business records to cover up that he had ex-lawyer Michael Cohen make a $130,000 payment to former porn star Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election to keep her quiet about her claims that she slept with Trump while he was married.

Trial is slated to last six weeks.

The presumptive Republican presidential nomiee has denied the charges and says the case is part of a political “witch hunt” to keep him out of office in the 2024 election.