“Donald Trump will become the first former president to sit for a criminal trial when he appears in a New York court Monday, kicking off a highly unusual stretch in which the Republican will campaign for a new term while defending himself against accusations he directed an illegal scheme to pay off a porn star,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The case of People v. Trump itself is a mixed bag, with the lowest stakes of the four prosecutions he faces. Trump would have no mandatory prison term if convicted. Despite the salacious back story, the case at its core is about documents: whether Trump falsified the business and financial records that accounted for the hush money.”
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Politico notes Trump cast himself in opposition to “menacing forces and vicious opponents” as he enters an unprecedented, weeks-long legal chapter of his presidential campaign.
