Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan court, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York. T
DONALD TRUMP became the first former US president to appear in court as a criminal defendant on Tuesday.
The ex-president flew back to his Mar-a-Lago palace in Florida after being indicted by a New York grand jury, having pleaded not guilty to 34 charges relating to payments made to two women with whom he reportedly had sex and a concierge privy to information about his sexual activities, supposedly to buy their silence.
Mr Trump was released on bail and will not appear in court again until December.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
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