Matthew Colangelo, the prosecutor, charged that Trump was concealing a “criminal conspiracy” and said that the former president had been “lying… over and over.”.
The historic trial—the first in which prosecutors have brought a criminal case against a former US president to a jury—began with his opening remarks.
Trump is charged with fabricating internal company documents as part of a purported plot to suppress news that he believed would harm his 2016 presidential campaign.
He faces 34 felony counts of fabricating business records, which carries a maximum four-year prison sentence. It is uncertain if he will actually go to jail for these charges.
Mr. Colangelo, the prosecuting attorney, informed the jury that Donald Trump, the defendant, had planned a criminal plot to rig the 2016 presidential election. Then, by repeatedly lying in his New York company documents, he covered up that illegal plot.
