Donald Trump said Friday that he intended to ‘testify’ at the bar as part of his criminal trial in New York, which begins Monday. The presidential candidate is on trial for payments aimed at obtaining the silence of a former pornographic film star just before the 2016 presidential election.
Asked by the press at his residence in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, to know if he considered that such testimony would be potentially risky from a legal point of view, the former American president replied: “I will bear witness. I tell the truth" The Republican presidential candidate in November is as usual in the courts of New York. He notably appeared there several times during his civil trial for fraud, at the end of which he was fined $355 million, before appealing. His first criminal trial will determine whether or not the 77-year-old Republican billionaire was guilty of falsifying accounting documents for his real estate group Trump Organization. First stage of the trial: the judge will have to assemble a jury of 12 New Yorkers, and six alternates.