Trump's Legal Woes Escalate with Hush-Money Scheme Indictment

Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, as prosecutors accused him of orchestrating payments to two women before the 2016 US election to suppress publication of their sexual encounters with him. Prosecutors in Manhattan allege that Trump falsified business records to conceal a violation of election laws during his successful 2016 campaign. Trump faces a separate criminal probe by a county prosecutor in Georgia into whether he unlawfully tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state.