Donald Trump Trial Live Updates: Former US President Donald Trump, the first in the nation’s history to face criminal trial, will return to court as prosecutors are set to present opening statements against him in a hush money case. A 12-person jury in Manhattan is set to hear opening statements from prosecutors and defense lawyers in the first of four criminal cases against the Republican presidential nominee.
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What we know so far: The former president is accused of falsifying internal Trump Organization records as part of a scheme to bury damaging stories that he feared could hurt his 2016 campaign, particularly as Trump’s reputation was suffering at the time from comments he had made about women. The allegations focus on payoffs to two women, porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said they had extramarital sexual encounters with Trump.
The allegations don’t accuse Trump of an egregious abuse of power like the federal case in Washington charging him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, or of flouting national security protocols like the federal case in Florida charging him with hoarding classified documents. But it may be the only one of the four cases against Trump that reaches trial before the November election.
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