Inside a Manhattan courthouse, a grand jury has been weighing evidence to decide whether former U.S. president Donald Trump should be indicted on charges relating to hush money payments made in 2016 to a porn actress.
Trump has denied an affair with the actress, Stormy Daniels, but the payment made to her, to keep her quiet, is not in dispute.
That payment was recorded by the Trump Organization as a legal expense. And it’s that recording that has the former president facing a possible criminal trial. He could be charged with falsifying business records, a misdemeanor, and also face a more serious charge of falsifying business records in the first degree — a felony.
But making that case,
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