– I testify. I speak the truth. I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is there is no case, they have no case, he said at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
Donald Trump was indicted on 34 counts of accounting violations in New York last March. The former president is accused of ordering payments to people who threatened to leak sensitive information about him during the 2016 presidential campaign, including porn star Stormy Daniels.
The trial is the first of the four criminal charges brought against the former president.