Former US President Donald Trump said he will be taken into custody by the prosecution next Tuesday, March 21. He wrote this on his social network, Truth Social.
“The illegal leaks from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicate that the former President of the United States will be arrested on Tuesday next week, although no guilt has been proven based on the old and completely refuted claims of numerous other prosecutors. Trump wrote.
The former president did not specify on what charge he should be arrested. On the eve of the American television channel NBC, citing sources, Trump may be detained next week in the old case in which he paid porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 to remain silent.
At the same time, NBC interlocutors emphasized that since no charges have been brought against the former president, negotiations between the departments regarding Trump’s arrest – local and federal law enforcement agencies in New York, state security structures – are in the preliminary stage.
Officials interviewed by the channel said the multi-agency team investigating the Trump case consisted of the NYPD, New York State Court officials, the US Secret Service, the FBI’s Joint Counterterrorism Task Force and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Trump’s lawyer, Joe Takopina, told NBC he would follow normal procedures if the former president got to the point where he would have to turn himself in to authorities.
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, expressed the view that such a step would ensure his victory in the presidential election in 2024, amid Trump’s statements about the upcoming detention.
“If that happens, Trump will be re-elected with a landslide victory,” Musk said.
In early 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg began testifying before a jury in a $130,000 bribery trial that former attorney and aide to the 45th President of the United States, Michael Cohen, handed over to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels for keeping quiet about her ties to Trump. . This was done in the final days of the 2016 presidential race campaign.
Stormy Daniels, now 44, first came out about her relationship with the billionaire in 2006. According to him, they repeatedly met with the entrepreneur for a close relationship. But then his lyrics did not receive much publicity. She even took a polygraph test in 2011 to verify the veracity of her words.
The porn star scandal reached a new height in January 2018, when Trump was in the Oval Office at the White House for a year. Then The Wall Street Journal ran a lengthy article in which he talked in detail about the adult film actor’s connection to the billionaire and Trump’s payment for the silence he had given him through Cohen. Subsequently, he repeatedly gave interviews to the major media, where he shared the details of the intimate life of the American president.
Trump denied the charges, after which Daniels filed a defamation lawsuit against himself and Cohen. But in October 2018, a New York court denied it. In August 2019, the New York State Attorney’s Office resumed its investigation, requesting documents through the court to pay the player $130,000 from the Trump Organization group of companies.
After The Wall Street Journal was published, several more women reported being harassed by Trump and having close relationships with the politician. Among them is model Karen McDougal, who claimed to have met Trump (like Daniels) in Lake Tahoe in 2006 and started an ardent romance. According to McDougal, the businessman gave him $150,000 to keep quiet she. Another pornographic actress, Jessica Drake, claimed that Trump offered her $10,000 for sex, but she refused.
Attorney Michael Cohen, who has worked for Trump since 2007, was sentenced to three years in prison for financial crimes in 2018 as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. Throughout the process, Cohen said on his own initiative, he had paid women to remain silent about his ties to Trump because he oversaw issues that could damage the future president’s image during the election race.