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# Trump Returns to Court for Opening Statements in Historic Hush Money Trial

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_Published 2024-04-22. Opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial are set to begin April 22, setting the stage for weeks of unsavory and salacious testimony about the former president's personal life and placing his legal troubles at the center of his closely contested campaign against President Joe Biden._


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## Transcript

I thank you very much. I just want to say before we begin these are all bikes and trial. This is done as election interference. Everybody knows it. I'm here instead of being able to be in Pennsylvania and Georgia lots of other places campaigning and very unfair fortunately the phone number to very good they've been going up because people understand what's going on. This is there which comes out of Washington in coordination with Washington everything including the day. I just want to sing like what's going on right now. You should never be happening is a very very sad day in America. I can tell you that.

Thank you very much.

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