The prosecutor went into detail about the "catch and kill" plot in the blockbuster in his opening statements in hush money trial which was held on Monday.
Former United States president, Donald Trump, on Monday was enraged as a prosecutor took further steps to prove how Trump "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election."
The prosecutor went into detail about the "catch and kill" plot in the blockbuster in his opening statements in hush money trial which was held on Monday.
There are allegations that Trump made a "hush money" payment to an adult film star in an effort to conceal damaging information about him during the 2016 election.
The former president had also urged his loyalists to stage a peaceful protest outside the courthouses across the country.
Donald Trump organised a criminal scheme to "corrupt" the 2016 presidential election and then attempted to cover it up, prosecutors claimed at the start of his bombshell hush money trial in New York.
In court, Trump fumed and shook his head as he was accused of lying "over and over and over again" to conceal an alleged attempt to buy porn star Stormy Daniels' silence with an illegal $130,000 fee.
He was also made to listen as a complete transcript of the infamous 'Access Hollywood' audio was read aloud to the jury.
Prosecutors described how Trump, supported by pals such as the National Enquirer, used a 'capture and kill' operation to purchase the rights to negative stories about his personal life.
Those reports, including Daniels' allegations of an affair, were then not published, and corporate records were allegedly altered in order to collect the payments.
In opening statements, prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told a packed Manhattan courtroom: "This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up. The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.
"Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again."
He added: "It was election fraud, pure and simple."
Todd Blanche, Trump's attorney, told the jury the former president had 'nothing to do with' paying Daniels, and it was handled by a bookkeeper.
He also indicated that Trump would continue to deny the porn star's claims that she had a relationship with the former president.
Blanche added: "There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election, it’s called democracy."
He also accused Daniels of trying to 'extort' Trump. Blanche said, "She saw her chance to make a lot of money, $130,000, and it worked. Her testimony, whilst salacious, does not matter."