Trump New York hush money criminal trial

It’s a ancient day in New York City as the first criminal trial of a former president and presumptive presidential nominee starts. Donald Trump has confronted 3 civil trials in New York since he left the White House, however that is the primary time he faces imaginable prison time.

Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, stemming from reimbursements made to Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen for hush money bills he made earlier than the 2016 election to an grownup movie megastar alleging an affair with Trump. The former president has pleaded no longer responsible and denied the affair with Stormy Daniels.

It’s referred to as the “hush money” trial, however Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says this situation is ready election interference, alleging the $130,000 cost used to be a part of a much broader scheme enacted by means of Trump and his allies from 2015 to 2017 to stay destructive information from citizens. 

Prosecutors allege as soon as the Access Hollywood tape changed into public the marketing campaign used to be scrambling to quash Daniels’ allegation out of shock of the way it might play with feminine citizens. Prosecutors should end up that Trump is responsible of falsifying industry data with the intent to cover that $130,000 cost.

Read more about the trial — and what’s at stake.