The charges filed Tuesday against former President Trump over alleged illegal hush money payments to adult performer Stormy Daniels are just the first of several criminal and civil cases that could snag Mr. Trump in the coming months.
The criminal charges that Donald Trump is now facing in New York stem from three separate instances in which the former president and his associates are accused of making hush money payments during his 2016 campaign: to two women to suppress information about extramarital sexual encounters they said…
The Donald Trump case isn’t about tawdry details of hush-money payments, nor is about Stormy Daniels or Michael Cohen — it’s about a presidential candidate using money and influence to silence potentially damaging stories that might make voters choose another candidate.
The cover-up is worse than the crime, the expression goes. And in the hush money case against Donald Trump, prosecutors say the cover-up made the crime worse.
The case that Manhattan prosecutors have brought against former President Donald Trump for allegedly falsifying business records to disguise hush money payments related to the 2016 campaign presents novel legal questions that make the prosecution risky -- but not impossible -- legal experts say.
