Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, left, arrived at the courthouse on Tuesday morning (early Wednesday AEST).
Bragg is Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, and the first prosecutor anywhere to bring a criminal case against a former US president.
The Democrat inherited an investigation of Trump when he took office in January 2022.
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After taking office, he paused an investigation into Trump’s business dealings that had been seen as gathering momentum toward a possible indictment.
But after his prosecutors won a trial last year in which Trump’s company, the Trump Organisation, was convicted of tax fraud, Bragg convened a new grand jury to examine the hush money payouts.
