New York prosecutors on Monday began telling a jury why Donald Trump's 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 US president got underway.
NEW YORK — New York prosecutors on Monday began telling a jury why Donald Trump 's 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 US president got underway."This case is about conspiracy of fraud," prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told the jury. "The defendant, Donald Trump , orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.
'Catcha nd kill'Prosecutors have said the Daniels payment was part of a broader "catch and kill" scheme hatched by Trump, Cohen and David Pecker—the former chief executive of tabloid publisher American Media—to pay off people with potentially damaging information about Trump before the November 2016 election. Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.Colangelo said Trump said in his business records that he was paying Cohen for legal expenses.“Those were lies.
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