Former US President Donald Trump has been accused of breaking the law and corrupting the 2016 election by bribing a porn star to keep his sexual relationship secret. Prosecutors in New York said this on the first day of the hearing of the criminal case against Trump in the bribery scandal on Tuesday. News from AFP.
At the hearing, prosecutors accused Trump of concealing criminal conspiracy and sex scandals ahead of the 2016 US presidential election. This was pure election fraud, said Matthew Colangelo, a lawyer, in opening legal arguments before the jury on Tuesday in the historic trial, which began in New York court.
It is not illegal to make such payments in secret in exchange for the confidentiality of information. But the Manhattan district attorney’s office alleged that Trump broke the law by illegally presenting the money to the porn star as legal expenses. Trump won the 2016 presidential election.
Trump was accused of bribing porn star Stormy Daniels with $130,000 to keep her sexual relationship secret before the election. Again, he resorted to fraud in his business records to keep the money secret.
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