Posted by Donald Trump arriving in court in Lower Manhattan yesterday. Photo: Mary Altaffer / AP
April 05 2023 02:30 AM
Donald Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush-money payments designed to stifle claims that could be harmful to his candidacy, prosecutors said yesterday in unsealing a historic 34-count felony indictment against the former US president.
The payments, said Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy, were part of “an unlawful plan to identify and suppress negative information that could have undermined his campaign for president.”
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