00:00 In the United States, the criminal trial against former President Donald Trump began Monday
00:04 in New York, in the middle of the election campaign in which the Republican aspires to
00:09 return to the White House.
00:11 New York prosecutors in this local process have charged Trump with 34 counts related
00:16 to falsifying financial reports to cover up payments in exchange for silence from a porn
00:21 star in 2016 and two other people, and they are serious crimes because they were part
00:27 of a maneuver to hide from voters information harmful to the candidates.
00:32 The charges involve a sentence of up to four years in prison, but everything indicates
00:36 that if convicted, he will not be imprisoned.
00:40 Trump is managing to turn the trial into a political spectacle for the benefit of his
00:45 campaign and if he wins, as some polls indicate, he could be the first convicted felon to occupy
00:51 the White House.
00:58 Contradictory protests were heard outside a New York courthouse on Monday.
01:02 Protesters chanted "No one is above the law" and supporters shouted "USA, USA, USA".
01:08 This is the first criminal trial of a former US president and is the first of four indictments
01:13 against Trump.
01:14 The ex-president has managed to postpone the other three criminal trials pending against
01:19 him with all sorts of legal maneuvers.
01:23 This one is considered the last damaging to his candidacy, although it is the only one
01:28 that is proceeding before the election.
01:30 Dozens of people are expected to be called to the courtroom to begin the process of finding
01:35 12 jurors plus six alternates.
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