Former President Donald Trump, is about now making an ignoble history as he becomes the first American President to be docked in a criminal trial.
Trump, today, is making history at a Manhattan courthouse with the New York criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records to disguise a hush money payment to a porn star and unlawfully influencing the 2016 presidential election.
Porn star, Stormy Daniels, had alleged that Donald Trump had consensual sex with her in 2006 – months after Melania Trump gave birth to Barron Trump.
According to USA Today, the presumptive Republican Party nominee is facing 34 felony counts with each carrying a maximum sentence of four years, although New York law caps such sentences at 20 years.
If he is convicted, many legal experts have posited that a realistic sentence ranges from probation to four years in prison, although Trump would likely remain free on appeal during the duration of the presidential election.
The trial is the first of its kind. No former American president has ever been criminally indicted although former President Richard Nixon may have faced that prospect if his former vice president, Gerald Ford, hadn’t pardoned him.
