Trump tried to ‘corrupt’ 2016 election, prosecution alleges

Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s hush money trial began in New York (Victor J. Blue/The Washington Post/AP)

Donald Trump “orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt” the 2016 presidential election, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday at the start of the former president’s historic hush money trial.

A defence lawyer countered by saying that Trump was “innocent” and by attacking the integrity of the one-time Trump confidant who is now the government’s star witness. Trump’s attorney said the case should never have been brought.