Twelve New Yorkers have begun deliberations on the 34 felony counts against Donald Trump in the first criminal trial of an American president. He is accused of falsifying business records in connection with a payment to a porn star.
If convicted, Donald J. Trump faces a sentence ranging from probation to four years in prison.Doug Mills/The New York Times
After weeks of tawdry testimony describing sex, tabloid deal-making and claims of a conspiracy that stretched into the Oval Office, a group of 12 New Yorkers must now decide whether to convict Donald J. Trump in the first criminal trial of an American president. The jurors filed out of a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday to begin deliberations, tasked with reaching a verdict that could either vindicate Mr. Trump’s argument that he did nothing wrong or sully him as a felon as he seeks to regain the presidency.
The criminal case — one of four against Mr. Trump, and most likely the only one that will go to trial before Election Day — exposed what prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney’s office described as a fraud on the American people. Mr. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a $130,000 hush-money payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, on the eve of the 2016 election. His onetime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, made the payment and was repaid by Mr. Trump, who prosecutors say concealed the nature of the reimbursement. If convicted, he faces a sentence ranging from probation to four years in prison.
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