{"id":52774,"date":"2024-05-28T19:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52774"},"modified":"2024-05-28T19:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:01:41","slug":"trump-judgment-looms-as-historic-trial-reaches-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52774","title":{"rendered":"Trump judgment looms as historic trial reaches finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prosecutors in the trial of Donald Trump will make a final pitch to the jury Tuesday, in their historic pursuit of the first ever criminal conviction of a former US president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Less than six months before American voters choose whether to return Trump to the White House, the stakes riding on the verdict are hard to overstate &#8212; for the 77-year-old personally, but also for the country as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is accused of falsifying business records to buy the silence of adult film star Stormy Daniels over a 2006 sexual encounter between them that could have damaged his 2016 presidential bid.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, he faces up to four years in prison on each of 34 counts, but legal experts say that as a first-time offender he is unlikely to get jail time.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially, a conviction would not bar Trump from appearing on the ballot in November as the Republican presidential challenger to Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors in the trial of Donald Trump will make a final pitch to the jury Tuesday, in their historic pursuit of the first ever criminal conviction of a former US president. Less than six months before American voters choose whether to return Trump to the White House, the stakes riding on the verdict are hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1618],"class_list":["post-52774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-judgment-looms-as-historic-trial-reaches-finale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}