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...In the tight contest against Hillary Clinton in 2016, tabloid news stories about other infidelities might have sunk Trump, Colangelo argued, saying: “We’ll never know.” Trump looked stoic....
..., as well as a senior lawyer at the New York attorney-general’s office, before being elected as Manhattan district attorney in 2021....
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...The office of the US attorney for the Southern District of New York declined to comment....
...The false records were allegedly entered by the former president many months after the 2016 election, he noted, in internal accounting books at a private company....
...The hush money case, in which Trump is accused of buying the silence of a porn star who alleged an affair with him in the run-up to the 2016 election, and then disguising those payments in business records...
...silence of porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election, and then disguising the transactions in his business records....
...The case was brought by the office of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg....
...declined to further delay Bragg’s “hush money” case against Trump, in which he is charged with paying thousands of dollars to conceal an alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016...
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...In the first criminal case, the Manhattan district attorney accused Trump of falsifying business records to cover up “hush money” payments to a porn star before the 2016 election....
...indictment was handed down in April 2023 over the former president’s alleged attempts to buy the silence of a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had an affair with him in the run-up to the 2016...
...The panel — which includes a female physical therapist, a retired male Lebanese wealth manager, a male investment banker, a male security engineer, two male attorneys, a female English teacher and an Irish-born...
...Chris Kise, an attorney for Trump, said: “The court today ignored the law, ignored the facts, and simply signed off on the attorney-general’s manifestly unjust political crusade against the front-running...
...The selection process will be arduous — even Trump appeared to nod off in the uncomfortably warm courtroom yesterday — as the judge, prosecutors and defence attorneys question roughly 500 potential jurors...
...Within an hour of jury selection beginning in the historic case — in which Trump is accused of disguising payments made to buy the silence of a porn star who alleged an affair in the run-up to the 2016 election...
...Hur was nominated by Trump in 2017 to serve as US attorney for Maryland and confirmed with bipartisan support in the US Senate....
...Hunter Biden, 57, is Joe Biden’s second son from his first marriage and his only living son after the death of Beau Biden, the former attorney-general of Delaware....
...by the New York attorney-general’s office....
...Miller would be expected to play a big hand in this along with Matt Whitaker, who served as acting assistant attorney-general during Trump’s first term after he fired Jeff Sessions, his first attorney-general...
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