The highly anticipated hush-money trial of Donald Trump, who has finally made it to court in New York, is about to begin.
No sitting or previous president of the United States has ever faced a criminal trial before.
The trial is expected to last at least six weeks, with the jury selection process taking up the first two weeks.
A $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels was reputedly intended to be concealed by Donald Trump prior to his 2016 election, which he went on to win.
According to Daniels, she had sex with Trump in 2006, and then Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen paid her not to say anything about it.
Donalds Trump is alleged to have lied about the purpose of the reimbursement funds he provided to Cohen, claiming they were for legal expenses.
addition to denying any wrongdoing, he vehemently denies having an affair with Daniels and faces 34 counts of fraud.
