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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Joe Sommerlad

What happens if there is a hung jury at Trump’s New York hush money trial?

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/AP

Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial is drawing to a close and his fate is now in the hands of the jury of seven men and five women as they begin their deliberations after six weeks of revealing testimony.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee stands accused of 34 charges of llegal falsification of business records to conceal a $130,000 payment made on his behalf to the adult film star Stormy Daniels one month before the 2016 presidential election to ensure her silence about an alleged extramarital sexual encounter a decade earlier.

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