Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) hold a press conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on April 12, 2024 , in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Donald Trump said Friday that he will testify under oath in his criminal case silent money testingis set to start entering New York in Monday.
Trump said: “All I can do is tell the truth” charge with 34 counts of falsifying business records “and the truth is there are no cases at all”.
The presumptive Republican presidential candidate speaks at a meeting Press Conference with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The trial – the first against a former president – focuses on hush money payments made in late 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump years earlier.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accused Trump of facilitating that payment and others to illegally hide information from voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election, which Trump would win. win.
Trump is expected to be in court throughout the trial, which could last more than six weeks.
Asked at Mar-a-Lago what he would look for when jury selection begins on Monday, Trump said: “Jury selection is largely luck. It depends on Who do you choose?”
He went on to once again attack the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, accusing him of having a conflict of interest that caused him to withdraw from the case.
Trump and his lawyers blamed the conflict on Mercan’s daughter’s work for a Democratic political firm. Mercan rejected that argument last year, but Trump’s lawyers recently filed another demurrer on similar grounds. Trump has repeatedly targeted the judge’s daughter on social media, prompting Mercan to extend a gag order on Trump.
Johnson, whose leadership of the narrowly divided House is being challenged from within his own party, traveled to Florida to meet with Trump, the de facto leader of the GOP and its most influential member this so far.
The two men held a press conference to announce a bill aimed at increasing election “integrity” by requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to vote, despite the fact that those who do not Having to be a citizen to vote is already illegal.
