Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a packed Manhattan courtroom Tuesday to dozens of counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy for his alleged role in hush money payments to two women toward the end of his 2016 presidential campaign.
NEW YORK: Once the most powerful man in the world, former American President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 34 felony charges arising out of an investigation into a hush money scheme designed to protect his then candidacy for the Oval Office.
Donald Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments designed to stifle claims that could be harmful to his candidacy, prosecutors said Tuesday in unsealing a historic 34-count felony indictment against the former president.