Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.will make history when he arrives in lower Manhattan Monday morning as the first former president to go on trial for criminal charges.
The case will be a major test for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, as it may be the only one of Trump's four criminal cases to face a jury before Election Day. Trump will trade the campaign trail for the courtroom, where the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is expected to be four days a week for the next two months.
It will also take the jury inside the Oval Office, where prosecutors allege then-President Trump signed-off on the cover-up that involved falsifying business records - invoices, ledger entries and checks - to reimburse Cohen for phony legal services. And it may feature at least one audio recording of Trump and Cohen allegedly discussing a catch and kill deal.
His legal team is led by Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, two former federal prosecutors from New York, and Susan Necheles, a veteran criminal defense lawyer with deep experience in New York and before Merchan. Necheles represented Trump's business at its tax fraud trial in 2022. The company was convicted.
Trump could also testify in his own defense. He has testified in two recent civil trials, after regretting not taking the stand in a prior civil trial, but the stakes are higher in a criminal case.The trial goes back to the final days of the 2016 presidential election when Stormy Daniels was about to go public with allegations that she had sex with Trump in 2006 at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
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