Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury last week.
Trump was processed and fingerprinted before his appearance in New York City on Tuesday. He is now the first former or current president to be indicted.
In unsealing the indictment, connected to alleged activity throughout 2017, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said: “The People of the State of New York allege that Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election. The trail of money and lies exposes a pattern that, the People allege, violates one of New York’s basic and fundamental business laws.”
