New Yorkers React to Trump’s First Day of Trial in Manhattan Court

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We are amid an historic presidential election season not only because we are to have a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, but also because the former president is now sitting for his first criminal trial in Manhattan. This is all happening just just six months before the November election and now New Yorkers are weighing in on the former president’s electability. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00We are amid a historic presidential election season not only because we are to have a rematch

00:05between Joe Biden and Donald Trump but also because the former president is now sitting

00:10for his first criminal trial in Manhattan just six months before the November election.

00:15Donald Trump is the first president in the history of the United States to go to court

00:19for criminal charges and Trump has been charged with 88 across four cases. The first he is being

00:25tried for is related to hush money payments he made to Stormy Daniels just weeks before

00:29the 2016 presidential election. He is accused of falsifying records and having his then lawyer

00:34and fixer Michael Cohen pay Daniels $130,000 which Trump then covered up. Here's what some

00:41New Yorkers had to say during the former president's first day in court when asked

00:45about his eligibility to run for president. No I don't think he should be allowed to run

00:50that's crazy. As someone that is running for president uh if the fact that he's on trial

00:55that shouldn't be allowed so I disagree completely with him being able to run as

01:00president while being investigated for several civil cases and criminal cases. Those sentiments

01:06seem to be shared by many across the country as well. A recent Reuters Ipsos poll found that a

01:11quarter of Republicans and half of independents surveyed said they wouldn't vote for Trump if he

01:15was found guilty and convicted of a felony.

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