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Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial is set to resume in New York on Tuesday with testimony from a banker familiar with accounts involved in the former U.S. president's alleged scheme to influence the 2016 election by covering up a sex scandal. Trump, the Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election, is charged with falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump in 2006. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denied having sex with Daniels, whose real na...

The judge overseeing the former US president's hush money trial said he would consider jailing Trump if he continued to violate a gag order.

Prosecutors had alleged 10 violations, but New York Judge Juan M. Merchan found there were nine. The ruling was a stinging rebuke for the presumptive Republican nominee, who had insisted he was exercising his free speech rights. Trump stared down at the table in front of him as the judge read the ruling, frowning slightly.

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified yesterday at Donald Trump’s criminal trial that he suppressed a story about an alleged affair to help Mr Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, even though it would have boosted sales of his tabloid.

David Pecker agreed with a prosecutor who asked whether the Stormy Daniels story would have been "National Enquirer gold".