Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Supporters including, from left Rep. Daniel Mauser, R-Pa., Rep. Dale Strong, R-Ala., former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, former Acting United States Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, Donald Trump Jr., Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, U.S. Sen Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and radio host Sebastian Gorka, right, listen as former President Donald Trump speaks outside the courtroom at Manhattan Criminal Court, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in New York.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged effort to keep salacious — and, he says, bogus — stories about his sex life from emerging during his 2016 campaign. On Monday, Trump called the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg a “scam” and “witch hunt.”
The charges center on $130,000 in payments that Trump’s company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen. He paid that sum on Trump’s behalf to keep porn actor Stormy Daniels from going public with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier. Trump has denied the sexual encounter ever happened.
Prosecutors say the payments to Cohen were falsely logged as legal fees. Prosecutors have described it as part of a scheme to bury damaging stories Trump feared could help his opponent in the 2016 race, particularly as Trump’s reputation was suffering at the time from comments he had made about women.
Trump has acknowledged reimbursing Cohen for the payment and that it was designed to stop Daniels from going public about the alleged encounter. But Trump has previously said it had nothing to do with the campaign.If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.
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