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Donald Trump engaged in "election fraud" by paying hush money to a porn star just days before the 2016 White House vote, prosecutors said Monday at the first ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president.

In a historic moment, former US President Donald Trump appeared in a New York courtroom on Monday to commence his trial over allegations of falsifying business records, marking the first time a sitting or former US president has faced criminal charges in court.

Donald Trump's New York criminal trial opened Monday in a historic first for a U.S. ex-president — and a seismic twist to an already explosive 2024 election where the Republican is seeking to defy multiple scandals and return to power.

Trump has repeatedly described the hush money case as a sham.

The first criminal trial against a former US president commences in a New York courtroom. Donald Trump stands accused of falsifying business records to conceal a payment made to former adult film actress Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election.

Donald Trump goes to court Monday as the first U.S. ex-president ever to be criminally prosecuted, a seismic moment for the United States as the presumptive Republican nominee campaigns to re-take the White House.

Donald Trump becomes the first U.S. ex-president to go on criminal trial Monday — pushing the nation's legal and electoral systems to the limit less than seven months before Americans decide whether to return the scandal-plagued Republican to the White House.

In a strategic move to forestall potential asset seizure, former US President Donald Trump has posted a 175 million USD bond while appealing the civil fraud case brought against him by New York Attorney General Letitia James, as per a report by CNN.

A judge has been dismissed from the judiciary over her extremely tardy handling of dozens of cases, following a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court's 48-member disciplinary committee.

Several complaints had been lodged about the judge, not just by lawyers but also defendants and plaintiffs, over the years.

A New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay $355 million over fraud allegations and banned him from running companies in the state for three years Friday in a major blow to his business empire and financial standing.

A New York judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's attempts to dismiss charges of covering up hush money payments to a porn star, setting the stage for the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president to begin on March 25.