What to Know About the Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels Hush-Money Case – The New York Times
Trump Hush-Money Trial
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Prosecutors accused Mr. Trump of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal. It is the first criminal trial of a former president.
Ben Protess, Kate Christobek and
Donald J. Trump is now on trial in Manhattan — the first former U.S. president to be criminally prosecuted.
The trial, which began Monday with jury selection and could move to opening arguments early next week, will oscillate between salacious testimony on sex scandals and granular detail about corporate documents.
Mr. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, all tied to the former president’s role in a hush-money payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels.
But that payoff is not the only such deal that prosecutors plan to highlight. The prosecutors, from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, have accused Mr. Trump of orchestrating a broader scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election by directing his allies to purchase damaging stories about him to keep them under wraps.
After a slow start to jury selection, the process gained steam this week as lawyers on both sides settled on the first seven jurors. They now must select another five as well as several alternates.
The judge overseeing the case said that if jurors continued to be seated at this pace, opening arguments would most likely begin Monday.
The first criminal trial of former President Donald J. Trump is underway. Take a closer look at central figures related to the case.
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