hello and welcome to the programme. we begin with breaking news coming out of the united states in the past half hour donald trump has become the first former united states president to face criminal charges. the case in new york relates to alleged hush money payments to an adult entertainer before the 2016 election. mr trump denies wrongdoing. i m joined now by our washington correspondent gary o donoghue. great to get you on the programme. i know that information is coming in fast and furiously. give us the latest of what we have heard today. it is worth pausing for a moment and realising that this is really a true moment in history. that where it is overly used, but this is a moment in history, the first time ever that an american president or former president has been charged with a crime. now, we know this investigation has been going on for some time. we know it relates to payments made to an adult film star before the 2016 general election. we don t know the details
An attorney for former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the indictment secured by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg came as no surprise.
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she had in 2016. that payment, the layer actually went to prison over because he was convicted on campaign finance violations for not disclosing this money as money spent to help donald trump s presidential campaign. so what the prosecutors are probably going to try to do is tie donald trump s reimbursement to that lawyer to the payment and then say this was all an attempt to cover up say this was all an attempt to cover up a crime, batch crime being a campaignfinance crime, up a crime, batch crime being a campaign finance crime, spending money to help his campaign that they didn t properly disclose. it will be an interesting case to make, and it will be interesting to see what kind of evidence and testimony, what kind of evidence and testimony, what kind of documents they have compiled to make that connection between that date next donald trump and the payment, and to make the case that that was in fact a crime. that was in fact a crime. anthony, and the last that was in fact a cri