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Donald Trump will be the first former president to stand trial when he arrives in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday morning.
The 77-year-old will sit at the defense table as the jury is selected from hundreds of New York residents.
The panel will decide if Trump is guilty or not guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
The eyes of the world will be on the trial that is set to last between six and eight weeks.
Donald Trump will be the first former president to stand trial when he arrives in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday morning
Hundreds of members of the media will be there to watch the drama unfold and the press coverage will be enormous.
However the whole trial will not be televised.
Trump initially tried to have cameras let into the courtroom, but New York is one of the states that has strict guidelines on recording.
Photographers will be let into the courtroom at the start of each day, but will then be ushered out.
The only visuals from inside will be court sketches.
But DailyMail.com will have a live blog of every day of court proceedings.
Here, we have broken down some of the other key aspects of the case.
The 77-year-old will sit at the defense table as the jury is selected from hundreds of New York residents
THE BACKGROUND
Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, shortly after Melania had given birth to their son Barron.
It happened when the two met at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
In an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes that aired March 25, 2018, Daniels said that she and Trump had sex once. She also claims she spanked him with a magazine that had him on the cover.
The former president has denied the affair and claims the trial is a politically-motivated 'witch hunt.'
THE PAYMENT
On January 12, 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that then-Trump fixer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in October 2016, a month before the presidential election, to stop her from discussing the alleged affair and thus hurting Trump's chances in the presidential election.
Prosecutors argue that Trump reimbursed Cohen in a series of installment payments processed by his business, which prosecutors say were fraudulently disguised as corporate legal expenses in violation of New York law.
Cohen, Trump and then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg reach an agreement that Cohen will be reimbursed $420,000 in total for the Daniels payment, prosecutors claim.
That includes a $60,000 bonus, $50,000 for a different expense and $180,000 to cover taxes - which would be made through 12 monthly payments of $35,000 each.
Cohen submitted invoices for the $35,000 payments, per Trump Organization business records.
