Trump’s Hush Money Trial: What To Expect
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The ex-president's first criminal trial — the first for any president — kicks off with jury selection on Monday morning.
Jury selection will begin on Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s four pending criminal cases, kicking off the search for a panel of New Yorkers to decide whether the way Trump handled a hush money payment to cover up an alleged affair constituted a felony.
It will be an extraordinary moment in U.S. history, the first time any former president has faced criminal trial and possible jail time.
It will also, in all likelihood, be a circus.
Unlike his recent civil trials, Trump is required to be in the courtroom while New York prosecutors lay out their case. That means he will have to sit and listen to expected witness testimony from Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, and Stormy Daniels, a porn star who claims she had an affair with Trump during his time on “The Apprentice.”
He has not proven to be a man who can sit and listen quietly. Judge Juan Merchan has already put him under a gag order barring him from launching public attacks on people involved in the trial, although Trump is still expected to give his own press conferences as it progresses.
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