thehill.com
Former President Trump’s first criminal trial began in earnest Monday, with opening statements from prosecutors and the defense team, as well as the calling of the first witness.
Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
The alleged offenses center on a $130,000 payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in the final days of the 2016 election campaign. The money was intended to stop Daniels from publicizing an alleged sexual encounter with Trump a decade previously.
Trump denies any such encounter and denies any legal wrongdoing.
The proceedings, in Lower Manhattan, are the first criminal trial of a former president.
If convicted, Trump faces up to four years in prison, though such a sentence for a first-time offender would be rare.
Here are the main takeaways from Monday.
Prosecution presses the case that Trump was conspiring to sway the election.
The offenses of which Trump is accused would normally be misdemeanors — except when prosecutors can make the case that they were committed in the service of another crime…
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