Prosecutors at hush money trial say Trump led 'porn star payoff' scheme to 'corrupt' 2016 election

NBC News— Donald Trump "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election," a prosecutor told jurors Monday during opening statements in the first criminal trial of a former president. "This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told the 12-person jury and six alternates. Trump, he said, conspired to corrupt the 2016 presidential election by scheming with his lawyer Michael Cohen and David Pecker, who was the publisher of the National...

Japan Today—On first day of Trump hush money trial, prosecutors say he corrupted 2016 election. New York prosecutors said on the first day of Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial that the former president broke the law and corrupted the 2016 election by trying to cover up sexual encounters with a porn star and a Playboy model, while his defense lawyer said he committed no

www.duluthnewstribune.com—Prosecutors say Trump corrupted 2016 election in first day of hush money trial. Prosecutors portrayed the payment as a criminal effort to deceive voters at a time when Trump was facing other accusations of crude sexual behavior.

The Guardian—Trump trial: hush money was ‘election fraud pure and simple’, prosecutors say. Ex-president ‘orchestrated a criminal scheme’ to corrupt 2016 election, prosecution says in opening statementKey takeaways from opening statementsDonald Trump “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election” in his efforts to cover up an alleged affair with the adult film star Stormy Daniels, the prosecution said on Monday in its opening statement in the former president’s criminal trial, with the defense countering that “there’s nothing wrong with trying to influence...