Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson (R-LA) maintain a press convention at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on April 12, 2024, in Palm Seashore, Florida.
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Donald Trump mentioned Friday that he would testify below oath in his legal hush money trial, which is about to start in New York on Monday.
“All I can do is tell the truth,” mentioned Trump, who’s charged with 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data, “and the truth is that there’s no case.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke at a press conference with Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., at Trump’s Florida resort dwelling Mar-a-Lago.
The trial — the primary ever towards a former president — facilities on a hush cash fee in late 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels, who says she had an extramarital affair with Trump years earlier.
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg accuses Trump of facilitating that fee and others to unlawfully conceal data from voters forward of the 2016 presidential election, which Trump would go on to win.
Trump is predicted to be in courtroom all through the trial, which might final over six weeks.
Requested at Mar-a-Lago what he will likely be searching for when the jury choice course of begins Monday, Trump mentioned, “Jury selection is largely luck. It depends who you get.”
He went on to as soon as once more assault the presiding decide, Juan Merchan, accusing him of getting a battle of curiosity that requires his recusal from the case.
Trump and his attorneys have mentioned that battle is that Merchan’s daughter works for a Democratic political agency. Merchan already rejected that argument final yr, however Trump’s attorneys just lately filed one other recusal request on related grounds. Trump has repeatedly focused the decide’s daughter on social media, prompting Merchan to increase a gag order on Trump.
Johnson, whose function main the narrowly divided Home is being challenged from inside his personal occasion, had traveled to Florida to fulfill with Trump, the GOP’s de facto chief and by far its most influential member.
The 2 males held a press convention to announce a invoice purporting to strengthen election “integrity” by requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to vote, despite the fact that it’s already unlawful for noncitizens to vote.
