Justice Juan Merchan denied a request by Trump’s lawyers that he recuse himself from the first case involving criminal charges against a former U.S. president, as he did last April and in August 2023
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an election campaign rally in Bozeman, Montana, on Aug. 9.was convicted of charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, dismissing the former U.S. president’s claim of conflict of interest related to political consultancy work by the judge’s daughter.
Trump was found guilty by a jury on May 30 on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for having covered up former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to avert a sex scandal before the 2016 U.S. election. Falsifying business records is a crime punishable by up to four years in prison, though sentences such as fines or probation have been more common for others convicted of that crime.
The payment to Daniels was made in exchange for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump a decade earlier, which Trump denied. Trump went on to win the presidency by defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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