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On Politics

Mon Apr 15 2024

 

Sudiksha Kochi Congress, Campaigns and Democracy Reporter

@KochiSudiksha

Hey OnPolitics readers! Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial started on Monday. It marked a first: No former American president has ever been criminally indicted.

Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, USA TODAY's Aysha Bagchi reported. If convicted, the charges could land the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in prison, but many legal experts say a realistic sentence ranges from probation to as much as four years behind bars.

💸 Start at the beginning: Prosecutors allege Trump reimbursed his former lawyer Michael Cohen for the $130,000 hush money payment through a series of checks, falsely labeling them as payments for legal services.

🥊 What are prosecutors saying? Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has said the case is about falsifying records in order to unlawfully interfere with the 2016 election.

How will the case unfold? The trial has started with jury selection, a days- or weekslong process in which both sides will try to suss out potential personal agendas towards Trump.

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