Donald Trump orchestrated a criminal plot to ‘corrupt’ the 2016 presidential election and then tried to cover it up, prosecutors alleged at the start of his blockbuster hush money trial in New York.
Trump shook his head as he was accused of lying ‘over and over and over again’ to conceal the alleged scheme to buy the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels with a $130,000 payment.
Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told a packed Manhattan courtroom: ‘This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up. The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.
‘Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again.’
He added: ‘It was…
