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Let’s get started with a bit of a recap.
Former US President Donald Trump has been charged with business fraud related to a hush-money payment that was made to ex-porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Daniels claims she and Trump had sex in 2006, and that she accepted $130,000 (£104,500) from Trump’s former lawyer in exchange for her silence about the encounter just ahead of the 2016 US election (which Trump won).
Prosecutors allege Trump had his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, make the payment, and that Trump then fraudulently recorded his reimbursement to Cohen as legal expenses when in fact it was payback for the hush-money payment. This is the alleged offence.
The former president faces 34 counts of fraud under campaign finance laws, and has pleaded not guilty to all of them. He’s also denied any sexual involvement with Daniels.