Donald Trump’s first criminal trial begins Monday in New York

In the midst of the electoral campaign for the November presidential elections, the long-awaited payment trial to avoid a sex scandal begins on Monday. donald trumpthe first former American president to hold a criminal justice position.

With just under seven months to go until the elections, the republican billionaire faces a prison sentence, an unprecedented situation that raises many questions about the campaign and his likely duel with the current tenant of the The White House, Joe Biden.

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Trump is summoned to the Supreme Court of New York State from 9:30 a.m. local time (1:30 p.m. GMT) on Monday to respond to allegations of forging commercial documents from Trump Organizationyour family business.

According to the accusation, the Republican hid the payment of US$130,000 in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign to the former porn actress Stormy Daniels remain silent about an extramarital sexual relationship they had ten years earlier and which Trump has always denied.

Neither the extramarital relationship nor the payment to Daniel are a crime, but it is a crime to have allegedly tried to falsify documents from his family company in order not to declare reimbursement of the amount initially paid out of his own pocket by his then personal lawyer, michael cohencurrently your enemy.

For the district attorney of Manhattan, Alvin Bragavoted in line with the Democrats, was “a conspiracy to rig the presidential election and lie on business documents to cover it up.”

Although the defense maintains that the payments responded to an extortion attempt by Daniels, the prosecution intends to demonstrate that trump orchestrated two other payments to cover up embarrassing matters in order to deceive Americans ahead of the 2016 presidential election against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Charged a year ago in this 34-count case for “falsification of accounting documents“, each of them punished with up to 4 years in prison, Trump declares himself innocent and feels like he is the victim of a “witch hunt” by Democrats to prevent him from returning to office. The White House.

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Jury selection

Described as “zombie“because he had been in limbo for a long time in the Public Ministry. Manhattanthis case is considered by experts to be the weakest of the four criminal cases against trump.

But it could be a stone in your electoral pathas the other three, linked to his allegedly illegal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, have been so delayed due to multiple appeals from his army of lawyers and procedural issues, that they are unlikely to be resolved. November 5th elections.

Lawyers have presented several appeals in recent days, including removing the judge of Colombian origin from the case. Juan Merchanso far without success.

If everything goes as planned, the trial will begin on Monday, the 15th, with the selection of the 12 jury members, a process that could last up to two weeks.

These citizens, who will remain anonymous for security reasons, will dictate the fate of the republican billionaire at the end of a process that can last between six and eight weeks.

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Electoral impact

The consequences of the trial are difficult to predict for an electorate already unenthusiastic about a new duel between the current president, the Democrat Joe Biden81 years old and trump77, one of the most controversial and divisive aspects of American politics.

“It is unprecedented for a major party candidate to be credibly accused of multiple crimes“, he summarized to AFP Hans Noelprofessor at the University of Georgetown.

According to several surveys, a portion of American voters (32% according to an Ipsos survey carried out in March) said they would be less inclined to vote for Trump if he was pleaded guilty.

But Santa recalls that “the legal problems donald trump “They helped him especially with the Republican electorate.” during primaries, when feeding “his speech as the standard-bearer of the people, attacked by the powers that be”.

trumpwho survived two impeachment trials in Congress during his tenure at The White House (2017-2021), saw his legal problems accumulate in the last year.

During this period, he was ordered to pay damages and fines worth more than $500 million for defaming a former journalist who accused him of rape and for modifying the value of the company’s assets as he deemed appropriate. Trump Organization.

Source: Elcomercio

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