Donald Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments designed to silence claims that he feared would be harmful to his candidacy, New York prosecutors said Tuesday in unsealing a historic 34-count felony indictment. The charges arose from a series of checks that Trump or his company wrote during the presidential campaign to his lawyer and fixer for his role in making a payment to a porn actor who alleged an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump years earlier. MORE: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/nation-world/donald-trump-criminal-charges/507-6b4e74e6-0bb0-47bf-9690-1859e2f97f4a