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Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial ends, verdict out soon

Less than six months before American voters choose whether to return Trump to the White House, the stakes riding on the verdict are hard to overstate, for Trump and the country. Trump is accused of falsifying business records to buy the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels about a 2006 sexual encounter. A conviction would not bar Trump from appearing on the ballot in November as the Republican presidential challenger to Democrat Joe Biden.