verdict in his civil fraud case where he was found to have inflated his assets the e jean carroll cases which resulted in verdicts for sexual assault and defamation, & a suit he filed against hillary clinton, which was thrown out judge juan merchan will rule on the admissibility of that subject matter on monday, the judge's ruling might cause trump to reconsider his stated desire to testify, but depending on how the evidence comes in, trump, mine have no choice but to testify and here's why trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment to a former adult film actress, stormy daniels. jurors will have to determine whether the payment was a violation of state and federal election law, meaning the trump paid the money for the purpose of silencing daniels with an eye toward his reelection. or as trump would like to argue, that it was made to spare his family from embarrassing disclosures, regardless of the election the wall street journal recently