Donald Trump was in Manhattan for the first day of his hush money trial — and a circus of comedians and performance artists joined protesters for a sideshow to mark the historic occasion.
Opinions gushed like water from a busted water main, as demonstrators assembled in both diehard support and deep condemnation of Trump, the former president indicted by a grand jury last year of falsifying business records to allegedly cover up hush-money payments to a former porn star over a purported affair.
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