The decision on whether to indict former US President Donald Trump and whether an arrest warrant will be issued against him is expected to be made on Wednesday in New York, according to US media. It would be the first time that a former president has been tried.
Trump recently spoke about his arrest on Tuesday, but the board that decides on the charge, the grand jury, is also still at work Wednesday. The Manhattan attorney general’s office, headed by Democratic attorney Alvin Bragg, has to wait.
Trump was reportedly charged with alleged administrative fraud more than six years ago when he was running for president. It wouldn’t be a serious crime. But according to Trump and his party colleagues it is “an unprecedented political persecution by the radical leftist attorney Bragg against a former president and candidate in the next presidential elections”.
Stormy Daniel
The indictment focuses on possible wrongdoing in the Trump administration and businesses following the payment of $130,000 in undisclosed money to porn star Stephanie “Stormy Daniels” Clifford by Trump adviser and business partner Michael Cohen. The payment would have been hidden and may have been tax evasion under New York state law. Trump and his lawyers argue that she was the victim of extortion by Daniels at the time.
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Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison in late 2018 for negligence committed while working as Trump’s attorney, according to the judges. The two had a fierce argument and the allegations against Trump are based mainly on his statements, according to a number of media outlets.
Source: BNR
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