Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty To 34 Felony Charges
etcanada.comFormer President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records arising from a hush money payment to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the matter.
The plea came during a history-making arraignment in a lower Manhattan courtroom, with Trump becoming the first former president in U.S.
history to face criminal prosecution. The two officials who confirmed the plea spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because prosecutors had not yet released the indictment publicly.
The arraignment, though procedural in nature, amounts to a remarkable reckoning for Trump after years of investigations into his personal, business and political dealings.
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