'Hush Money' Trial Day 1 ┃Trump Throws  Tantrum┃ #trump #trial #shorts  #politics
Channel: Grift Guard
Date: 15/04/2024

Donald Trump's hush money trial that begins Monday in Manhattan could last as long as eight weeks.

It is the first time a former president has been criminally charged, although Trump has now also been charged in three other criminal cases in other jurisdictions for attempting to overturn the 2020 election and hoarding classified documents after leaving office.

In New York, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for allegedly disguising hush money payments issued to porn star Stormy Daniels. He has pleaded not guilty.

On his way into the Manhattan courthouse Monday morning, he said without evidence that the trial is “political persecution” and “an assault on America.”

While the lengthy proceedings could take him off the campaign trail, his campaign has already used the trial as a fundraising hook.

His criminal trial involving the adult film actor Stormy Daniels and the former Playboy model Karen McDougal. 

Trump, the first former US president to face a criminal trial, is accused of paying Daniels and McDougal to cover up alleged extramarital liaisons that could have damaged his candidacy in the 2016 election. The trial is scheduled to start this morning, with jury selection in Manhattan supreme court