We’ll see if he actually goes through with it.
hush money trial, set to begin Monday, the former president says that he plans to testify in his own defense. Trump denies having a sexual encounter with adult film starin 2006, as well as the allegation that he later falsified business records while trying to buy her silence for $130,000 ahead of the 2016 election.. He called the trial a “witch hunt” that’s “very bad for the judicial system in New York.
Trump faces a maximum of four years in prison for 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, according toa spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to comment on the former president’s statements to reporters. Trump’s attorneys have tried and failed three times to delay his prosecution. He has also attacked Judge Juan Merchan multiple times, oftenMerchan over a gag order that barred him from denigrating witnesses in the case, as well as the judge’s family, prosecutors, and court staff.“It’s very unfair that we have this judge who hates Trump and has tremendous conflict, as you know,” he said. “Nobody can believe that this judge isn’t recusing himself.
This marks the first criminal trial ever brought against a former U.S. president. As made obvious by his comments, Trump has pleaded not guilty.
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