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| Trump trial live: Opening statements begin in New York hush-money case - BBC News | Trump trial live: Opening statements begin in New York hush-money case - BBC News |
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| Kayla Epstein | Kayla Epstein |
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| Matthew Colangelo is now laying out the background surrounding the case - the alleged "catch and kill" scheme that Donald Trump, a tabloid publisher, and Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen engaged in. | |
| The scheme was to stop damaging stories from coming out during the 2016 presidential election, the court hears. | |
| He explains the prosecution's case that Trump, National Enquirer Publisher David Pecker, and Cohen had entered into an agreement to provide favourable coverage to Trump, attack his presidential rivals, and importantly, keep an ear out for any damaging stories about Trump in order to head them off. | |
| The prosecution says the damaging stories that Pecker and Cohen headed off included a salacious story from a Trump property doorman about an alleged love child, and a Playboy model's story of an affair with Trump. | |
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