Trump's Stormy Daniels hush money trial to start on April 15, judge rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : The date all but ensures that Trump will become the first-ever former U.S. president to go on trial for criminal charges.
39% : In another case on Monday, Trump won a bid to pause his $454 million civil fraud judgment if he posts a smaller $175 million bond within 10 days, in a victory for Trump that blocks New York state authorities from taking steps to seize his assets.
38% : In the hush money case, prosecutors say the Daniels payoff was part of a broader "catch-and-kill" scheme Cohen and Trump hatched to boost his candidacy by buying the silence of people with damaging information.
35% : The case is one of several legal travails Trump, 77, faces as he ramps up his 2024 campaign to unseat Democratic President Joe Biden.
35% : Daniels says she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
34% : The documents came from the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which previously investigated the payment but did not charge Trump.
29% : Cohen testified that Trump directed him to make the payment and went to prison after pleading guilty to violating campaign finance laws.
21% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to silence adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says they had a decade earlier - an encounter Trump denies.
21% : Trump denies an encounter.
13% : Trump lawyer Todd Blanche said it was unfair for Trump, who held the office from 2017 to 2021, to stand trial while he runs for president.

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