Trump to make history with sordid ‘zombie’ trial

A previously stalled probe over alleged pay-offs to a porn star has led to the first criminal trial against a former US president that starts this week.

Joe Miller

Apr 14, 2024 – 11.46am

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In March 2021, an investigation into payments allegedly made by Donald Trump to buy the silence of a porn star was, in the view of Manhattan prosecutors tasked with pursuing the former president, dead and buried.

Yet on Monday (Tuesday AEST), the “zombie” case – abandoned by a former district attorney and by federal prosecutors who presumably thought it too flimsy to charge, before being revived last year – will roar back to life, as the first-ever criminal indictment of a former US president proceeds to trial in New York.

Financial Times