HE Former President of the United States Donald Trumphas been accused an indictment against grand jury in New York for payments made before the 2016 presidential election to silence allegations of sexual intercourse by porn star Stormy Daniels. So the real estate entrepreneur country’s first president After passing through the Oval Office or actively, whose face criminal complaints in history.
While the charges have yet to be made public, the grand jury voting is already in the hands of Manhattan district attorney Democrat Alvin Bragg, according to multiple US media reports citing anonymous sources. The charge will be brought before a judge.
As was customary throughout Trump’s political career, his indictment Puts the US in a foreign territory. And not only because of this historical factor, but also because the Republican has been an official candidate since November. party’s 2024 presidential candidacy. Blame doesn’t stop him from continuing in the race. But Political waters are churning. Once again with Trump.
Trump’s reaction
HE The old president got the news In Mar-a-Lago, Florida, From where he made a statement, assuring that “This is the highest level of political persecution and election interference in history”. In the message, Trump assures that Democrats are “doing the unthinkable,”the most innocent person ever‘ and confirms that what he calls a ‘witch hunt’ will forcefully turn against Joe Biden.
Trump also attacked Bragg, a black prosecutor who he had dehumanized in recent weeks by dehumanizing him as an “animal” and reiterated the accusation that he was “appointed and funded by George Soros.” A few days ago, he published an article on Truth Social with Bragg on one side and himself with a baseball bat on the other.
The following steps
It is unknown what Trump’s next steps will be, whose lawyers have started negotiations with Bragg’s office to arrange his delivery. If he resists, a warrant will be issued for his arrest, even though he gives signs that he will not resist.
One of the former president’s lawyers, quoted by CNN, predicted that the prosecution would take place probably next week. After this process, which had to be recorded and photographed, he appears before a judge for the first time when the charges are made public (although they have been leaked before).
With the grand jury’s verdict this Thursday, a moment that seems to have gone away in recent days has accelerated. Her the team looks relieved before the news that the work of the grand jury will be suspended until the end of April. And Trump issued a message on Wednesday praising that grand jury and reassuring the prosecutor that they had halted efforts to impeach him.
the heart of the case
At the heart of Bragg’s case are the payments to Daniels. The attorney was later reimbursed, although it was handled by Michael Cohen, who was Trump’s personal attorney at the time. 130,000 dollars. And to make the so-called payments and refund falsified documentsSomething with a possible violation of financing laws campaign will increase the seriousness of the crime.
Combination of laws upon which Trump’s impeachment could be based and could lead to punishment up to four years in prison but what doesn’t necessarily mean jail, new. Never before had a prosecutor used it in a case. And this is something that makes some legal professionals see the truth. Potential for having trouble getting a conviction Trump’s.
other situations
The New York case, however, is not the only one Trump has faced, and it may not be the most serious. The ex-president can also be prosecuted GeorgiaHere, a special grand jury examined whether he and his team interfered in the 2020 presidential election to reverse the legitimate results in that state that gave Joe Biden victory. This special grand jury has already made impeachment proposals to the prosecution, which is supposed to present the charges, but this Monday Trump’s lawyers tried to paralyze the process.
Also a Special prosecutor appointed by the Ministry of JusticeJack Smith, review irregular use of classified documents A case the FBI even searched at his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, Trump was able to carry out after he left the White House. Smith is also a capital attack investigation and the role Trump could play in this uprising (something he’s already been subject to a political lawsuit, his second ‘charge’, as in the first, he was cleared by votes in the Republic Senate).
In front civil justiceThe real estate businessman is also the target of a lawsuit in New York. Potentially fraudulent practices of the Trump Organization.
stretch
Trump’s drums for possible impeachment over payments to Daniels had been beating for 21 days since Democrat Bragg was found to have filed a criminal complaint. guest for trump testify before a grand jury (former president) who examines the case and sets the charges declined this invitation). Two weeks ago, it became known that law enforcement was preparing for possible charges, and Trump posted a message on his social network two Saturdays ago, urging his followers to “protest”, assuring him that he would be arrested “next Tuesday”. ” and “saving the nation.” Although history was invented, the tension has been maximum ever since.
This hit too political war. and lots of Republicans, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy for Florida Governor Ron DeSantisJoined Trump’s accusations politicized persecution, point with Special critique of Bragg. Thanks to his Republican control in the Lower House, the three conservatives who chair the committees sent a letter to the Democratic prosecutor urging him to show up this week and hand over the documents.
The former president had also used the case before the indictment. mobilize your followers and search raise more fundsQ. Once again, he returns to feed from the moment he lived in the spotlight. And according to some strategists and analysts, all the attention may benefit him in the primary struggle, at least in the short term of the Republican Party.