A Manhattan judge has denied President-elect Donald Trump’s request to dismiss his hush money conviction, rejecting claims tied to the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. The case’s future remains uncertain as Trump prepares to return to office.
Stormy Daniels, 45, became a crucial witness in the case against Donald Trump, claiming that she had a sexual encounter in 2006 and was paid $130,000 to not discuss the matter before the 2016 elections. Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records to conceal the hush money payment.
Donald Trump's lawyer cast the former US president as a victim of a porn star's blackmail and argued that prosecutors had failed to prove he covered up a hush money payment to her as Trump's historic criminal trial neared a conclusion on Tuesday.
Prosecutors and defence lawyers in Donald Trump's hush money trial are set to deliver closing arguments to the jury Tuesday, each side looking to score final points with the panel before it starts deliberating the fate of the first former American president to be charged with felony crimes.
Michael Cohen's testimony on Monday linked Trump to all aspects of a hush-money scheme that prosecutors say was aimed at stifling stories that threatened his 2016 campaign. He's the prosecution’s star witness.
During a trial in the Manhattan Court, Daniels told a New York jury she grew up as the daughter of a low-income single mother who was gone for days at a time and began working in strip clubs and in pornography before she met Trump at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament.
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