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Prosecutors are charging Trump with 34 crimes for alleged document forgery in a plot by which he allegedly tried to conceal the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.
The alleged bribery trial against former US President Donald Trump will begin this Monday in New York, after the jury selection process concluded on Friday with the election of six alternates.
Judge Juan Merchan, who is leading the case against Trump, is suspected bribery of former pornographic film actress Stephanie Cliffordchose the 12 jurors who will make up the jury on Thursday and concluded the trial on Friday, setting the tone for opening arguments on Monday at 9:30 am (3:30 pm in the Basque Country), Bloomberg reported.
The trial will begin this way after a New York appeals court judge on Friday rejected a last-minute request by the former president to halt the trial and move it to another location, arguing that he would not be treated fairly.
The Public Prosecution Service accuses Trump of this 34 crimes for alleged document forgery, within a plot by which he allegedly tried to conceal the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels to buy her silence and not talk about an alleged extramarital affair before the 2016 election. The tycoon justified this payment as part of your statutory expenditure regulations.
The former president’s lawyers They tried in vain to delay the start of this process, the first of several Trump is considering. The former president is facing a federal case against him for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in which current president Joe Biden won.
Source: EITB
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