NEW YORK — Donald Trump schemed to defraud the 2016 electorate and covered up the plot by lying “over and over and over again” once he won the White House, prosecutors charged Monday during opening statements at the former president’s hush money trial. The ruse central to the first-ever criminal case against an ex-U.S. president started with “three men in a room” at Trump Tower in August 2015, .
CNN legal analyst Norman Eisen will join the line Monday morning to witness opening statements in the first-ever criminal trial of a former American president.
Defense attorneys on Monday argued that former President Trump “is innocent," maintaining that he “had nothing to do" with the alleged hush money payments for which he is facing trial.