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David Pecker testifies about meeting with Trump and Michael Cohen in 2015 to discuss how he could help presidential campaign

Donald Trump faces a contempt of court hearing on Tuesday as part of his historic criminal trial, with New York prosecutors insisting the former president repeatedly violated the gag order issued to prevent him from intimidating witnesses.

Opening arguments deliver starkly different portraits of the former US president in historic criminal trial.

"There will be lots of evidence to corroborate everything [David] Pecker says," law prof. Bennett Gershman says

Here's what the prosecutors and the defense had to say about the alleged payments to women claiming to have relationships with Trump

Former president Donald Trump’s first criminal trial got going in earnest today with opening statements from prosecutors and defense

Trump attorney Todd Blanche claimed his client is too cheap to have paid Michael Cohen $420,000 for a hush payment

The ex-president appeared uncomfortable at times as his criminal trial finally got under way in New York on Monday

The prosecution is arguing that Donald Trump wanted to keep information out of the public fearing that it would turn off voters in 2016. The defense argues Trump did nothing illegal.