Watch Nidhi Razdan: Trump’s criminal trial begins and US elections loom

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For the first time in the United States, a current or former President is facing a criminal trial and how this plays out could have a long lasting impact on American politics. Last week, jury selection got underway for Donald Trump’s trial in New York in what is called the ‘hush money’ case.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/trumps-criminal-trial-puts-american-politics-in-spotlight-1.102273170  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #USElections #DonaldTrump

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00:00For the first time in US history, a sitting or former President of the United States is

00:08facing a criminal trial.

00:10The trial of Donald Trump in what is called the Hush Money case has finally begun in New

00:16York this week, with the jury selection having been completed.

00:20In this particular case, Trump has been accused of paying an adult film star named Stormy

00:24Daniels over $130,000 several years ago in order for her not to speak up about an affair

00:31that she alleged that they had.

00:33Trump denies the allegations, and many experts say that of all the criminal cases that he

00:38faces, this is probably the least worrisome for him.

00:44It will attract a jail term of four years if he is convicted, but they expect the actual

00:50punishment to be much less if he is indeed found guilty.

00:54Now, until now, Trump has been painting himself as a martyr.

00:57He's been essentially appealing to his core Republican base and saying that he's the victim

01:02of a political witch hunt.

01:04And polls are increasingly beginning to show that it is only his hardcore support base

01:09within the Republican Party that is buying that argument.

01:13More moderate Republicans seem to be on the fence when it comes to Donald Trump and have

01:18indicated in poll after poll that they may not be so thrilled to support him if he is

01:23actually convicted of a felony.

01:26What should worry Trump is that a new poll that's just been done by Reuters shows that

01:30more than 60% of registered voters in the United States say that they will not vote

01:36for Trump if he's actually convicted in a criminal case.

01:40And new polls also show a much, much closer race now between him and Joe Biden.

01:46Trump has blustered and bombasted his way all these years through all the scandals that

01:51he has faced through his impeachment and through these criminal charges that he is currently

01:56facing as well.

01:58But finally, not just with this case, but with other cases as well, it looks like his

02:03past may finally catch up and the American people need to wake up and ensure that they

02:09don't elect him again.

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