Prosecutors: Trump hush money is election fraud 'pure and simple' | TFC News New York, USA
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With 12 jurors and 6 alternates in place, the historic criminal trial of former President Donald Trump
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is now underway at the New York Criminal Court in Lower Manhattan.
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Prosecutors made their opening statements on Monday,
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alleging Trump falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment
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to silence adult film star Stormy Daniel just weeks before the 2016 presidential election.
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Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Colangelo considers this a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up,
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saying Trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election, then covered it up.
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Meanwhile, Trump's defense team painted a different picture, saying the former president is innocent.
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His attorney Todd Blanch stresses that Trump did not commit
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any crimes. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
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But prosecutors say Trump falsified checks and invoices to disguise $420,000 in payments
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to his fixer Michael Cohen as legal services, when in fact,
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they were meant to reimburse him for paying Daniels to silence her.
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The jurors also heard briefly from the prosecutor's first witness,
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former National Enquirer publisher David Packer.
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Who prosecutors say participated in a catch-and-kill scheme that suppressed negative stories about Trump
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to help him get elected in 2016.
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Prosecutors portrayed the hush money payment as a criminal effort to deceive voters
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at a time when Trump was facing other accusations of crude sexual behavior
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right after the infamous Access Hollywood hot mic comment.
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Colangelo calls this a planned, coordinated, long-running conspiracy
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to influence the 2016 election.
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To help Trump get elected, through illegal expenditures,
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the prosecutor also refers to it as election fraud, pure and simple.
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Meanwhile, across the street from the courthouse,
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reporters and their coverage teams outnumbered protesters and supporters
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who showed up on Monday.
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It's a big day for New York and I'm just very proud that the city is handling it so well.
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It's very quiet here. It's very peaceful here.
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There's no crowds at all. There's a lot of police presence.
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And I just hope for the best.
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That whatever is going on in the building behind us will show the country that justice will prevail.
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While Trump was quiet inside Judge Juan Merchan's courtroom, outside he voiced out his frustration
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that while Biden is on the campaign trail, his Republican challenger was on criminal trial.
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But they take this payment and they go at a legal expense and you heard it today for the first time.
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This is what I got indicted over. This is what took me off and takes me off the campaign trail
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because I should be in Georgia now. I should be in Florida now.
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I should be in a lot of different places right now campaigning and I'm sitting here.
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And this will go on for a long time. It's very unfair.
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This first criminal trial of a former U.S. President will resume on Tuesday.
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Don Tagala, ABS-CBN News, New York City.
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Thank you for watching!
