A handful of anti-Trump protesters and Donald Trump supporters gather outside Manhattan criminal court in New York as the former president's landmark criminal trial opens. "We're going to be watching the trials for the next six weeks and hoping for a guilty verdict," one protester tells AFP, while a supporter expresses frustration, saying "It's getting to a point where it's really ridiculous... They're trying to stop a political opponent from winning." (COMPLETES VIDI34PE6W9_EN, VIDI34PE4LN_EN, VIDI34PE6WA_EN, VIDI34PG6D9_EN AND VID34PE766_EN) IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES