Trump will be first ex-president on criminal trial. Here's what to know about the hush money case

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50% : Among the questions potential jurors will be asked: Whether they follow the former president on social media, have ever worked for a Trump organization and have ever attended a Trump rally -- or anti-Trump organizations or rallies and whether potential jurors are supporters or followers of far-right groups, such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, whose members were among the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, or of the far-left-leaning collective known as antifa, which resists fascists and neo-Nazis, especially at demonstrations.
44% : Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his hush money case opens Monday with jury selection.
41% : Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
35% : The 2020 election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith remains on hold while Trump pursues his claim that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while in the White House.
34% : To win on the felony charge, prosecutors must show that Trump not only falsified or caused business records to be entered falsely -- which would be a misdemeanor -- but that he did so with intent to commit or conceal a second crime.
34% : Potential jurors will be known only by number, as the judge has ordered their names to be kept secret from everyone except prosecutors, Trump and their legal teams.
33% : It carries enormous political ramifications as potentially the only one of four criminal cases against Trump that could reach a verdict before voters decide in November whether to send him back to the White House.
33% : Daniels alleges that she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 that she didn't want, but didn't say no to.
33% : Trump says it never happened.
32% : But Trump said in 2018 it had nothing to do with the campaign.
27% : Before testifying in front of the grand jury that brought the indictment last year, Cohen said his goal was "to tell the truth" and insisted he is not seeking revenge but said Trump "needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds."
27% : Trump has pleaded not guilty in all three cases and says he did nothing wrong.
26% : Trump recently posted on social media a picture of a 2018 written statement from Daniels, in which she denied they had a sexual relationship.
25% : Here's what to know about the hush money case and the charges against Trump:WHAT'S THIS CASE ABOUT?
25% : Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has said that Trump was trying to conceal violations of federal campaign finance laws -- an unusual legal strategy some experts argue could backfire.
23% : Trump has acknowledged reimbursing Cohen for the payment and that it was designed to stop Daniels from going public about the alleged encounter.
22% : The allegations focus on payoffs to two women, porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said they had extramarital sexual encounters with Trump years earlier, as well as to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged Trump had out of wedlock.
21% : Trump says none of these supposed sexual encounters occurred.
21% : The other case brought by Smith accuses Trump of illegally retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
20% : WHAT WILL TRUMP'S DEFENSE BE?Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has slammed the case as an effort to hurt his 2024 presidential campaign.
19% : No trial date has been set in the Georgia case accusing Trump and his allies of conspiring to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
15% : Trump has described the two as liars, testing the limits of a gag order that the judge imposed.

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