The former US president attended a court in New York on Monday for the start of jury selection in his hush money trial. The charges centre on 130,000 US dollars (about £104,000) in payments that Trump's company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen.He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep porn actor Stormy Daniels from going public, a month before the election, with her claims of a sexual encounter with the married mogul a decade earlier.Prosecutors say the payments to Mr Cohen were falsely l

The former US president attended a court in New York on Monday for the start of jury selection in his hush money trial. The charges centre on 130,000 US dollars (about £104,000) in payments that Trump's company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen.He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep porn actor Stormy Daniels from going public, a month before the election, with her claims of a sexual encounter with the married mogul a decade earlier.Prosecutors say the payments to Mr Cohen were falsely logged as legal fees in order to cloak their actual purpose.