Trump hush money criminal trial starts in New York on Monday
Donald Trump becomes the first US ex-president to go on criminal trial Monday — pushing the nation's legal and electoral systems to the limit less than seven months before Americans decide whether to return the scandal-plagued Republican to the White House.
Trump is accused of falsifying business records in a scheme to cover up an alleged sexual encounter with porn star Stormy Daniels so as not to doom his 2016 election campaign.
The so-called hush money affair is only one of four criminal cases hanging over Trump and it is arguably the least serious.
But the real prospect of Trump becoming a convicted felon — and potentially facing jail time — throws an astonishing wild card into an already unprecedented election in which the right-wing populist is running on dark vows of «vengeance» against Democratic President Joe Biden, who beat him in 2020.
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