With focus on charges, jury in Trump hush money trial begins deliberations

Two of the jurors are lawyers: one does civil litigation, the other does corporate law. Another is an investment banker who gets his news from social media - including Donald Trump’s very own online platform, Truth Social.

It could also result in the 77-year-old Republican being sentenced to jail - or the more likely option of home-confinement or probation - if he is indeed found guilty for falsifying business records to cover up an affair with a porn star, in order to influence the 2016 election. First there’s the perception of politics. Trump, after all, is a Republican presumptive nominee in the heat of an election campaign, being charged by district attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat who campaigned for his job as the best candidate to go after the former president.

Charges had been considered and abandoned by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, who had already investigated Trump and chosen not to indict him under federal campaign finance law for the same scheme. Boiled down, Trump has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, which centre on claims that he directed the hush money payment and then reimbursed Cohen, but disguised it as a legal retainer to cover up its true purpose.

Three of the jurors, for example, could believe there was a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act . Another four could think it’s a breach of tax laws . And the remaining five could believe it’s additional falsification of business records .

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