Deal

 Washington Post: Prosecutor: A tabloid pact led to Trump faking business records - A deal to quash stories about sex scandals and boost Trump’s candidacy allegedly led to hush money crimes By Devlin Barrett, Shayna Jacobs, Tom Jackman and Hannah Knowles

“It was election fraud, pure and simple,” Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo told the jury inside a packed and heavily guarded courtroom, illustrating the sky-high stakes of a criminal trial in which the defendant is also the presumptive GOP nominee for president in the November election.