How a hush money scandal tied to a porn star led to Trump’s first criminal trial

It was the kind of tawdry tale Donald Trump might’ve relished before politics: a porn actress claiming they’d had sex. Now, after years of fits and starts before an indictment last year, Trump is set to stand trial Monday in New York on state charges related to the very sex scandal that he and his aides strove to hide. It will be an unprecedented event in U.S. history — the first criminal trial of a former president.