Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to a New York City courtroom on Tuesday as his business records trial resumes.
It has been suggested that prosecutors plan to begin questioning former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s banker Gary Faro as the trial resumes in Manhattan at 9:30 a.m.
Faro, a former managing director of the now-defunct First Republic Bank, took the stand briefly on Friday, when the court adjourned until Tuesday.
Trump is the first former US president to face criminal charges.
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Required court appearances limit the 77-year-old’s time for campaigning, as he is likely to face President Joe Biden again in the 2024 White House race.
The Republican is accused of falsifying business records to reimburse Cohen for $130,000 he sent to porn star Stormy Daniels days before his 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. ing.
At the time, Daniels, 45, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, threatened to go public with a story about an alleged sexual encounter with President Trump in 2006 that could have derailed her White House campaign.
Although President Trump denies having sex with Daniels, he has taken a firm stand against the charges against him.
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He claims this is a “witch hunt” launched by Democrats to thwart the former president’s plans to take back the White House in November.
Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records related to payments to Daniels.
He maintained his innocence and denied any relationship with her.
A recent poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only about one-third of American adults believe President Trump acted illegally in the incident.
The case is new york vs trump, New York County Supreme Court No. 71543-23.
