Apr 15, 2024 - 13:33
By cnbc.com

Trump criminal hush money trial starts Monday in New York with jury selection

Donald Trump's trial in New York in his hush money case will start with jury selection, the first time a former U.S. president has faced a criminal trial.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has accused Trump of filing business records that hid the true purpose of a $130,000 payment his then-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.
The trial, one of four criminal cases Trump faces, could hurt his ability to campaign in person against President Joe Biden in their rematch of the 2020 election.

The hush money trial of Donald Trump is set to kick off Monday in New York with jury selection, the first time a former U.S. president has ever faced a criminal trial.

Trump's lawyers last week repeatedly sought to delay Monday's start date with last-ditch efforts in an appeals court, but those efforts all failed.

In all, defense attorneys tried about a dozen times to dismiss or delay the trial, but only succeeded in pushing it back by a few weeks.

Trump, who is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is charged with nearly three dozen counts of falsifying business records in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he will be required to be in the courtroom every day for the trial. It is expected to last about six weeks or more.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has accused Trump of filing business records that hid the true purpose of a $130,000 payment his then-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen made to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.