The immediate past United States President, Donald Trump, has pleaded not guilty to all as he becomes the first current or former president in the United State’s history to go on trial.
Presently, Trump’s hush-money trial is underway, and his lawyers have consistently said that he did not commit any crimes.
The New York prosecutor, Matthew Colangelo, and Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, made the opening statements in what may be the only one, out of Trump’s four criminal prosecutions to go to trial before his November 5 election rematch with President Joe Biden.
Colangelo had informed jurors that Trump engaged in a “catch and kill” plot with Pecker and his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to help him beat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In his words,
“The case is about a conspiracy and a cover-up, an illicit conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election, and then the steps that Donald Trump took to hide that illegal election fraud”.
He also informed the jury that they could hear Trump working out the details of the scheme in recorded conversations.
However, Trump’s lawyer, Blanche, spoke shortly after prosecutors told jurors that the former President broke the law by misleading voters.
According to Blanche, “There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It is called democracy. They [have] put something diabolical on this idea, as if it’s a crime.”
