Pretrial motions filed ahead of Trump’s hush money trial [Video]

Jury selection began Monday in Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial, making history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges.Trump is accused of falsifying internal Trump Organization records as part of a scheme to bury stories that he feared could hurt his 2016 campaign, particularly as his reputation was suffering at the time from comments he had made about women. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. For months leading up to the trial, Trump’s legal team filed a number of pretrial motions, including attempts to delay the trial and to remove the judge.Here’s a look at the pretrial motions filed in Trump’s hush money case:Attempt to delay trialTrump’s attorneys lost a bid to get the hush-money case dismissed and have since repeatedly sought to delay it, prompting a flurry of last-minute appeals court hearings last week.Among other things, …