Donald Trump hush-money criminal trial begins in New York

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Case centres around alleged payment by former US president’s ex-lawyer to porn star Stormy Daniels during 2016 election campaign

Former US president Donald Trump appears in court in New York City with his legal team on Monday. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Imagescourthouse on Monday to hear prosecutors explain why his alleged cover-up of a hush money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign broke the law, as the first-ever criminal trial of a former

Prosecutors say Mr Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr Trump a decade earlier deceived voters in the waning days of Trump’s 2016 campaign, when his candidacy was struggling from other revelations of sexual misbehaviour.

Michael Cohen , one-time lawyer and fixer for former president Donald Trump. Photograph: Dave Sanders/The New York Times The tabloid reached a similar deal to pay $30,000 to a doorman who was seeking to sell a story about Mr Trump allegedly fathering a child out of wedlock, which turned out to be false, according to prosecutors.

 

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