Earth Day Bluey Surprise: Donald Trump accused of “criminal conspiracy” on the first day of his criminal trial

The first day, Monday April 22, of debates and testimonies of the historic trial of the former American president in New York draws a duel between accusations of "pure and simple electoral fraud" and a "witch hunt" denounced by the former president.

The image becomes almost routine. Donald Trump comes out of his New York Tower, waves to the few onlookers, then gets into his black car, surrounded by a convoy worthy of a president still in office. Head to the court, located a stone's throw from his ivory tower, for his criminal trial which is only just beginning. 

After a laborious week choosing the twelve jurors and their six alternates, the debates of this moment in history – never before has a former American president appeared before a criminal court – were finally able to begin on Monday April 22. 

The crazy politician faces 34 charges, notably accused of having falsified his accounts to hide, just before his election in 2016, a total payment of $130,000 to Stephanie Clifford, actress and director of pornographic films better known under her pseudonym “Stormy Daniels”. 

A sum which would have been used to buy his silence on their affair maintained in 2006, when Melania Trump, the wife of Donald Trump, had just given birth to their first child.