Manhattan district attorney’s office prosecutor Matthew Colangelo made the remarks during opening statements Monday at Trump’s historic hush money trial.
By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Eric Tucker and Jake Offenhartz, Associated PressDonald Trump speaks to reporters, next to his attorney Todd Blanche, at Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024.
The statements from prosecutors and later from Trump’s lawyers will give the 12-person jury and the voting public the clearest view yet of the allegations at the heart of the case. “The impact of that tape on the campaign was immediate and explosive,” Colangelo said, recounting for jurors how prominent Trump allies withdrew their endorsements and condemned his language.
The prosecutor described other payments as well that were part of what’s known in the tabloid industry as a “catch-and-kill” ploy — catching a potentially damaging story by buying the rights to it and then suppressing or killing it through agreements that prevent the paid person from telling the story to anyone else.
The trial will require him to spend his days in a courtroom rather than on the campaign trail, a reality he complained about Monday when he lamented to reporters that he was “here instead of being able to be in Pennsylvania and Georgia and lots of other places campaigning, and it’s very unfair.”
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