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The New York Police had blocked some streets and had fenced off access to the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office after Trump wrote on his social networks that he would be “arrested” and also incited his supporters to take to the streets to protest. The authorities have reinforced security as a preventive measure before the arrival of the former president to hear the charges. Reports Mamen Sala.
Donald Trump He is the first former US president to face criminal charges.
The 76-year-old president has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on charges centering on payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence allegations of an extramarital sexual encounter. Trump was indicted this Thursday by a grand jury for paying to silence the porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump faces more than 30 charges related to business fraud and could appear in court as early as Tuesday.
Trump said he cannot have a fair trial in New York, hours after his indictment for irregular payment of $130,000 to a porn actress in 2016 was revealed.
The Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Braggwho opened the case against Donald Trump that this Thursday materialized in his imputation, indicated that he is in coordination with the former president’s team to coordinate “his delivery.”
In a brief statement with which he incidentally confirms the accusation against Trump, Bragg recalls that this accusation “remains under seal”, so it may take several days until its exact content is known.
Mike Pencevice president in the Trump Administration, said that “the idea that a former president is charged for the first time in the history of the United States for a campaign finance case smacks of political persecution.”
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Donald Trump’s main Republican allies and rivals on Thursday denounced the criminal indictment against the former US president as an attempt to derail his new 2024 White House bid.
Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives and second in line for the presidency, as well as other co-religionists, lashed out at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, who launched the criminal investigation against Trump.
“Bragg has irreparably damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our presidential election,” McCarthy said.
Environment outside the Manhattan District Attorney’s office this Thursday, March 30, 2023, in New York in the United States. A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump on charges related to payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to hush up allegations of an extramarital sexual encounter.
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, considered “undemocratic” the possible arrest this Tuesday of former US president Donald Trump (2017-2021) for paying money to silence the porn film actress Stormy Daniels.
“President Trump, former President Trump, is declaring that they are going to arrest him, I think today, for an allegedly love affair. If that were the case, then everyone would know, because we are not sucking our thumbs, which is so that it does not appear on the electoral ballot,” said the Mexican president in his daily press conference.
Former US President Donald Trump will be indicted on Tuesday, his lawyer Susan Necheles told AFP, after a grand jury indicted the Republican billionaire for making surreptitious money payments to a porn actress.
“We expect the appearance to take place on Tuesday,” Necheles said in an email, without elaborating. At an arraignment, the defendant is presented with the charges against him and usually pleads guilty. A judge then decides whether he should be released on bail or detained.
The former vice president of the United States and probable candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential elections Mike Pence referred on Thursday to the indictment of former president Donald Trump (2017-2021) by a New York grand jury as a “political persecution”.
In an interview on CNN, Pence, a vice president in the Trump administration, said that “the idea of a former president being indicted for the first time in the history of the United States in a campaign finance case smacks of political persecution.”
“I think the vast majority of the American people will see it that way,” he added.
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, said Thursday that the United States could not condemn “political persecution” in other countries after a jury’s decision to indict former US President Donald Trump.
“Unfortunately, it will be very difficult for US foreign policy to use arguments like ‘democracy’ and ‘free and fair elections’, or to try to condemn ‘political persecution’ in other countries, from now on,” the post published. president on Twitter.
This first accusation could open the door to others: Trump is also the subject of an investigation for the way in which he managed the files in the White House and for allegedly having exerted electoral pressure on the state of Georgia. In the latter case, the prosecutor promised an “imminent” decision.
But the indictment could also benefit the candidate at a time when he lacks the campaign dynamics of years ago.
Julian Zelizer, a professor at Princeton University, acknowledges that any other presidential candidate would be “terrified” by such accusations, but “one of Trump’s greatest talents is to capitalize on attacks against him.”
Donald Trump was indicted this Thursday by the New York Prosecutor for a black payment to buy the silence of a porn actress in 2016, becoming the first president or former president of the United States who will have to sit on the bench of justice.
After a grand jury set up by Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg voted to criminally indict the former president, the prosecution contacted his attorney “to coordinate his delivery” on a date to be determined.
The prosecution’s charges remain “sealed” for the moment, the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. According to CNN, he could face up to 30 charges related to business fraud.
A large number of Republican Party officials considered this Thursday that the impeachment of former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) is a “witch hunt” and warned that the US population “will not tolerate it”.
“The American people will not tolerate this injustice, and the House of Representatives will hold (Prosecutor) Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said.
Former President Donald Trump said he cannot have a fair trial in New York, hours after his indictment for irregular payment of $130,000 to a porn actress in 2016 was revealed.
On his Truth Social network, Trump, who had previously charged against the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden, attacked the impartiality of the New York court that has to judge him. “They have only brought this false, corrupt and disgraceful accusation against me because I stand with the American People,” he wrote, “and they know I cannot have a fair trial in New York,” he wrote.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, facing Trump for the Republican nomination in 2024, announced that the state will not honor an extradition request for the former president, who has been indicted by a New York grand jury.
In a brief message on Twitter, DeSantis said that “weaponizing the legal system to advance the political agenda turns the rule of law upside down.” Trump’s address is in a mansion and private club by the name of Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach (eastern Florida).
Stormy Daniels, the porn actress who flirted with the idea of entering politics, is waging a legal and media battle against Donald Trump, which has earned the ex-president an unprecedented indictment in the history of the United States.
Ambitious and with a strong personality, this 44-year-old woman has also paid the price of fame, with endless derogatory comments on social networks against her. The most notorious of hers was the one that Trump, then head of state, dedicated to her in 2018: “Horse face”.
Stephanie Clifford, her real name, was born in 1979 in Baton Rouge, in the southern state of Louisiana. Raised by her mother after her parents divorced her, she recounts in her book that her family neglected her and that when she was nine years old an older man sexually abused her.
A New York prosecutor on Thursday confirmed the indictment of former US President Donald Trump, and his office said it is organizing the “turnover” of the magnate, after a grand jury decided to indict him for paying $130,000 to a porn actress in 2016.
“Tonight we contacted Mr. Trump’s attorney to coordinate his delivery to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for arraignment,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said in a statement, noting that the indictment remains sealed.
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Former President of the United States Donald Trump formally indicted. Trump was charged with hushing up money against a porn star named Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential election campaign.
Criminal charges against Trump this is history. Trump is the first former US president in US history to face criminal charges.
The formal charges against him are not yet known, and a jury’s decision in the US justice system cannot be announced until the accused is in custody.
In 2016, during the campaign period, Stormy admitted that she had had sexual relations with Trump, even though at that time Trump was still married. Trump then ordered one of his workers, Michael Cohen, to pay Stormy Daniels not to talk about what happened to him.
Michael claims he was asked to pay Stormy US$130,000 and billed the payment as legal fees.
Trump’s lawyers have already leaked if the jury will convict Trump. Now lawyers must arrange for Trump to turn himself in. Trump considered that moment to be political persecution.
“This is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history” described the accusations as part of a “pursuit” of “radical leftists”.
Trump maintains his innocence, but has made no direct statement urging his supporters to take to the streets, as he did last week via the social network Truth Social.
But he attacked Manhattan Attorney Alvin Bragg directly, who handled this case directly.
Authorities in New York City have been bracing for possible chaos by beefing up security around the Prosecutor’s Office building.
The jury decision in the United States is called an “indictment,” basically a formal notification of a criminal charge but meaning a restraining order against Trump.
In some cases, the accused was given the opportunity to voluntarily surrender, which is common in cases involving high-level politics in the United States.
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Trump has posted on his Truth account the words of several Republican allies who have vehemently protested against the impeachment
Former President Donald Trump said today that Can’t get a fair trial in New Yorkhours after his imputation for irregular payment to a porn actress in 2016 for 130 thousand dollars.
in your network Truth SocialTrump, who had previously charged against the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden, attacked the impartiality of the court New Yorker who has to judge him.
“They have only brought this false, corrupt and disgraceful accusation against me because I stand with the American People,” he wrote, “and they know I can’t have a fair trial in New York,” he wrote.
shortly before, Alvin Bragg, The prosecutor who will formalize the charges after having heard the grand jury -which is the one who decided the imputation of the former president-, had said in a brief statement that he was already negotiating with Trump’s lawyer “his delivery” for the charges to be read.
In addition to that statement, Trump has posted on his Truth account the words of various Republican allies who have protested vehemently against the accusation, in addition to a cartoon where he himself is seen holding a blackboard, in the style of the defendants in a police station, which reads: “Donald Trump 2024, remains the number 1 threat to the system”.
It is not clear how Bragg will go about making Trump move to New YorkIn addition, the governor of Florida, also a Republican Ron DeSantis, has said that his government will not attend to a request for Trump’s extradition if it occurs.
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The former president Donald Trump dismissed this Saturday his possible charge for money paid to silence a porn actress, when celebrating his first campaign act for the 2024 presidential elections in the United States.
The New York District Attorney, under the auspices and direction of the ‘injustice department’ in Washington DC, was investigating me for something that is not a crime, is not a misdemeanor, is not a case,” he told his supporters in the Texas town of Waco.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is investigating whether the actresses Stormy Daniels he received $130,000 from Trump, just before the 2016 presidential elections, presumably so as not to speak publicly of an alleged love affair between the two.
I never liked ‘Horseface,'” Trump said, giving Daniels a derogatory nickname.
That would not be the chosen one. There aren’t any. We have a great first lady.”
Trump had said he would be arrested last week and warned that his impeachment could result in “potential death and destruction”, apparently from angry supporters.
He would become the first former president or sitting president in be accused of a crime if the grand jury, a panel of citizens convened by Bragg, decides to indict him.
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