2024-03-03 19:01:05
The Republican candidate will face his first trial for one of the charges against him.
New York justice denied the request to Donald Trump to dismiss his criminal charges, so will face trial by alleged irregular payments to the former adult film actressStephanie Clifford, known in the business as Stormy Daniels.
The magistrate Juan Merchan announced his decision personally to Donald Trump. Then, this Thursday the 15th, he arrived at the Manhattan court. For tryalong with his legal team, that the judge dismiss the charges.
The argument used by the former president of the United States was that that trial will interfere with your electoral campaignbut was denied anyway.
The trial that Donald Trump will face will start on March 25 and will last around six weeks in the middle of his electoral campaign, which begins on first of the same month.
It is known that the former president paid the former porn actress US$30,000 during his presidential campaign in 2016 for hide an affair that they would have had 10 years earlier.
Although said payment itself It is not illegal, the way he did it is. This is because Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer at the time, hid the disbursements through the accounts of the business conglomerate prior to the elections where Democrat Hillary Clinton won.
Donald Trump and the trials he will face
The trial in New York It will be the first of four criminal cases that they have Donald Trump in the dock.
Another of them corresponds to the investigation into the participation of the former president in the insurrection of January 6, 2021 trying to annul Joe Biden’s victory. On the other hand, there is negligent handling of documents classified and confidential after finishing his term in the White House.
Donald Trump’s defense team, in a attempt to continue postponing legal processes that the former president must face, referred to the decision to begin a trial as a election interference destined to discredit y inside to the Republican favorite.