Trump hush money prosecutors seek to ask about fraud, E. Jean Carroll

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43% : Merchan said on Tuesday that he may hold a hearing over prosecutors' request to question Trump on those cases on Friday if jury selection ends early.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty.
34% : Trump was ordered to pay $454.2 million in fines and penalties in that case.
31% : Prosecutors said in a March 10 notice to defense lawyers that if Trump testifies in the case, they would challenge his credibility by asking him about civil cases in which jurors found he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and then defamed her by lying about it.
31% : The Manhattan prosecutors also want to ask him about the civil case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James in which a judge found Trump and his family real estate company liable for fraudulently valuing properties in order to dupe insurers and lenders.
25% : (This story has been corrected to say that Trump was found liable for fraudulently valuing properties to dupe insurers, not investors, in paragraph 8)(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
24% : The hush money case is the first of four criminal indictments Trump faces to reach trial.
16% : It will be up to Justice Juan Merchan to decide whether the prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office can ask Trump about those cases during his possible cross-examination, or whether they would be too prejudicial to Trump and not relevant enough to the trial.
8% : Trump, the Republican presidential candidate in the Nov. 5 election, is accused of covering up his then-lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump a decade earlier.

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