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The caravan taking Donald Trump to court arrived at New York Criminal Courthouse on a clear morning at around 8:50 am ET (12:50 GMT). New York prosecutors on Monday (April 22) began telling a jury why Donald Trump's alleged cover-up of a hush money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign broke the law, as the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president got underway. Lawyers for the Republican presidential candidate will also make their opening statement in what may be the only one of Trump's four criminal prosecutions to go to trial before his Nov. 5 election rematch with Democratic President Joe Biden. Though Trump called for supporters to protest peacefully at courthouses "all over the Country," few were on hand to greet him when he arrived at the downtown courthouse. Trump suggested tight security measures were responsible for the sparse turnout, but the streets surrounding the courthouse were open to the public. Prosecutors say Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to
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Where's Melania, Mr. Trump?
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Donald, where's Melania?
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Thank you very much. I just want to say, before we begin, these are all Biden trials.
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This is done as election interference. Everybody knows it.
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I'm here instead of being able to be in Pennsylvania and Georgia and lots of other places campaigning.
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And it's very unfair. Fortunately, the poll numbers are very good.
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They've been going up because people understand what's going on.
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This is a witch hunt, and it's a shame, and it comes out of Washington.
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It's in coordination with Washington, everything, including the DA's office.
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