A New York court opened an unprecedented criminal trial of a former U.S. president on Monday as Donald Trump faced the first of the four cases in which he has been indicted.The trial, expected to last one to two months before a jury reaches a verdict, concerns an alleged coverup of hush money paid on his behalf to a porn star ahead of the 2016 presidential election.Trump is set to be nominated as the Republican presidential candidate for the November election at the party's national convention in July, and has insisted all the indictments are groundless."This is political persecution," Trum…READ FULL ARTICLE