The BBC has been speaking to two former prosecutors about the Trump case, with wildly different interpretations.
Ambrosio Rodriguez, who isn’t a Trump fan, thinks the former president is being prosecuted unfairly because of who he is.
Rodriguez says the case relies on old allegations, and says the trial is “a waste of time, and not good for the country”.
“This seems just a political need and want to get Trump no matter what the costs are.”
Others disagree. Nick Akerman, who worked on the Watergate case, thinks it’s far more serious.
“This is about an effort to defraud the American voters in 2016 to keep them from learning material information that would have affected their vote,” he said.
Trump’s lawyers say he hid the payment to Stormy Daniels to save his family from embarrassment – not to hide it from voters.
Akerman disagrees: “First of all, all of this was done right before the election, it had nothing to do with his family,” he added.
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