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New Yorkers herded into the courtroom where former President Trump seeks a jury of his peers appear to have one question on their mind: Is he orange?

That was the quality upon which two dismissed jurors remarked in interviews outside Manhattan criminal court Thursday, the third day of jury selection in Trump's hush money trial.

A prospective juror was dismissed from Donald Trump's trial after comparing the former U.S. president to the late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

New York Justice Juan Merchan dismissed the prospective juror, who was born and raised in Italy, who pointed out that media in his home country had promoted similarities between the two populist leaders. He told the court that he didn't believe he could be impartial toward Trump at his criminal trial, reported Politico.

Donald Trump stayed seated Thursday morning as those around him in the New York court stood to be introduced to potential jurors — a show of respect that is traditional.

Reporters described a table full of people on the defense side who immediately stood and faced the jury. Trump didn't stand.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) confidently waltzed right past a fact check on live television over Ukraine's desire to join the NATO alliance.

House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced down a leadership challenge from within the Republican Party by moving forward with separate funding bills for aid to Ukraine, Israel and other allies, but Luna told CNN's John Berman that she and other GOP lawmakers would continue to oppose military aid to the embattled European nation.

An amendment offered up by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to add funding for "space laser technology" to be used along the southwest border was hammered by the Washington Post's Philip Bump as another sign the controversial GOP lawmaker is not a serious person deserving of any attention.

Greene's amendment was proposed for a foreign aid package designed to provide supplemental funding for Israel, with Greene proposing, "By the funds made available by this Act, such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border."

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) reportedly got into a heated discussion Thursday with rebellious members of his caucus who have been trying to block foreign aid from passing.

CNN's Haley Talbot reports that Van Orden grew frustrated with Gaetz and his fellow hardliners who have spent months derailing aid packages to American allies Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.

Alabama Law School professor Joyce White Vance referred to Donald Trump's jury intimidation as outright mafia-like.

Wednesday night, Trump began posting online about jurors — just hours before one told the judge she was concerned her identity had been compromised by information published about her and was dismissed.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) did not contain her anger at Republicans Thursday over delays in funding aid to Ukraine.

At a House Rules Committee hearing on three foreign aid packages for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, DeLauro was asked to comment on Republicans complaining about border security even though they killed a bill that would have helped stem undocumented immigration.

A potential juror who confessed she couldn't be impartial left Donald Trump's trial at the New York courthouse on Thursday and spoke to MSNBC about what it was like seeing the former president in person.

"You know, he looked less orange, definitely, like, more yellowish, like yellow," she told Yasmin Vossoughian. "He looks — he doesn't look angry or — I think he looks bored. Like, he wants this to finish. And go do his stuff."

The selection of two attorneys to sit on the jury as Donald Trump is being prosecuted on 34 felony counts in a Manhattan courtroom is raising the eyebrows of some trial experts who stress it could have a major impact when it comes time to arrive at a verdict.

With the total of seated jury members down to five after two were dismissed on Thursday morning, one of the remaining jurors is a civil litigator at a high-end law firm while the other is a corporate lawyer with a background in business start-ups and raising capital.

Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, is scrambling to stop short sellers from tanking its share values.

NBC News reports that Trump Media this week sent around suggestions to shareholders to prevent their shares in the company from winding up in the hands of short sellers who are essentially betting on the company's failure to make money.

Lara Trump downplayed the criminal charges against her father-in-law Donald Trump as a mere "bookkeeping error."

The Republican National Committee co-chair appeared Wednesday on Sean Hannity's Fox News program, where she suggested Manhattan prosecutors were engaged in election interference for trying the former president on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up alleged hush money payments to adult movie actress Stormy Daniels, reported HuffPost.