The Manhattan District Attorney's office unveiled charges against Donald Trump, the first former US president to face criminal charges. Here is an explanation of the charges he faces and his possible defenses
WHAT IS TRUMP ACCUSED OF DOING?with 34 felony counts for falsifying business records related to a "catch-and-kill" scheme to suppress negative news stories about him ahead of the 2016 election.$130,000 to for her silence on an affair she says she had with Trump.
Taken together, the charges carry a maximum of 136 years in prison under New York law, but any prison sentence following a guilty verdict would almost certainly be far less than that. Trump would almost certainly appeal any conviction.in a company's records.
In an interview with Reuters in December 2018, Trump said the payment to Daniels "wasn't a campaign contribution" and "there was no violation based on what we did." That could blunt any attempt by Trump to argue that Cohen is falsely implicating him to try to win a lenient sentence, a common argument criminal defendants make against cooperating witnesses.
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