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