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By Staff Reporter
For the first time in the United States, a current or former President is facing a criminal trial and how this plays out could have a long lasting impact on American politics. Last week, jury selection got underway for Donald Trump’s trial in New York in what is called the ‘hush money’ case.
Trump is accused of paying off an adult film star, Stormy Daniels, after an affair in 2016 to stop her from going public, and then falsifying his business records about the money. He faces 34 counts of fraud for lying about what the $130,000 was spent on but has denied any wrong doing. Even though he could potentially face 4 years in jail, most experts believe it won’t come to that.
