Only a handful of supporters demonstrated outside the Manhattan courthouse Monday where a grand jury is considering the investigation by District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who pIt could make him the first former US president to be charged with a criminal offense.
He could even be arrested and handcuffed, an unprecedented scenario for which the New York police are preparing with barricades around the prosecutor’s office and Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
Trump assured on Saturday on his Truth Social platform that he would be “detained” on Tuesday, a blow to his run-up to try to return to the presidency of the United States in 2024.
It is not yet known when there will be a jury decision and an announcement from the judge.
“We are operating with leaks, we are operating with limited information but it is clear that they view President Donald Trump as a threat,” said Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans, which convened the protest.
Opponents of the former Republican president also protested in front of the court, such as Bob Fertek, a New Yorker for whom Trump is a “fraud” and whom he would like to see in the dock.
Chaos” –
Trump, who ended the balance between powers in the United States, attacked again this Monday on his social network against the “corrupt” service of prosecutor Bragg, an African-American Democratic magistrate, elected at the polls, like all judges and prosecutors in the country. .
For the 76-year-old Republican billionaire, the investigated fact prescribes after two years. “And more importantly, IT WAS NOT A CRIME!!!” he wrote Monday on Truth Social.
Alina Habba, a lawyer for the tycoon, warned on CNN Sunday that “if (the Democrats) decide to frame him for an offense that he has not really committed, they are going to create chaos.”
The New York police reinforced security this Monday in the face of the probable indictment of Donald Trump for buying the silence of a porn actress with whom he would have had a relationship, a “witch hunt” according to the former president, who summoned his followers to support it massively.
Only a handful of supporters rallied outside a Manhattan courthouse Monday where a grand jury is considering an investigation by District Attorney Alvin Bragg that could make him the first former US president to be charged with a criminal offense.
He could even be arrested and handcuffed, an unprecedented scenario for which the New York police are preparing with barricades around the prosecutor’s office and Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
Trump assured on Saturday on his Truth Social platform that he would be “detained” on Tuesday, a blow to his run-up to try to return to the US presidency in 2024.
It is not yet known when there will be a jury decision and an announcement from the judge.
“We are operating with leaks, we are operating with limited information but it is clear that they view President Donald Trump as a threat,” said Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans, which convened the protest.
Opponents of the former Republican president also protested in front of the court, such as Bob Fertek, a New Yorker for whom Trump is a “fraud” and whom he would like to see in the dock.
– “Chaos” –
Trump, who ended the balance between powers in the United States, attacked again this Monday on his social network against the “corrupt” service of prosecutor Bragg, an African-American Democratic magistrate, elected at the polls, like all judges and prosecutors in the country. .
For the 76-year-old Republican billionaire, the investigated fact prescribes after two years. “And more importantly, IT WAS NOT A CRIME!!!” he wrote Monday on Truth Social.
Alina Habba, a lawyer for the tycoon, warned on CNN Sunday that “if (the Democrats) decide to frame him for an offense that he has not really committed, they are going to create chaos.”
Local authorities fear a repeat of the chaos of the assault on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021, when Trump urged his supporters to ignore the results of the polls that gave Democrat Joe Biden the victory and prevent his inauguration.
On social networks, the Trumpists promise to prevent the indictment of their hero, in particular the group “The Donald”, which calls for a “national strike” or even a “civil war 2.0”, according to the Rolling Stone and Daily Beast media.
– Complex case –
The case of the porn actress Stormy Daniels is legally complex.
Stephanie Clifford, Daniels’ real name, he received a $130,000 payment from Trump in the weeks before the November 2016 election. Prosecutors claim that the intention was to buy his silence about an alleged extramarital relationship.
new york justice tries to clarify whether Trump is guilty of false statement, an infraction, or of violating the election finance law, a criminal offense.
The investigation accelerated last week.
Michael Cohen, a former lawyer and now a sworn enemy of Trump who was tasked with delivering the money to Clifford in 2016, testified before the grand jury, a panel of citizens chosen by lot, whose verdict could lead to an indictment. Meanwhile, Daniels is cooperating with prosecutors.
Trump was also encouraged to testify before this grand jury. According to another of his lawyers, he plans to do it.
“Prosecutors almost never invite the target of the investigation to testify before the grand jury unless they intend to indict him,” former prosecutor and law professor Bennett Gershman told AFP.
According to his colleague Renato Mariotti, it is likely that, in the event of indictment, Trump, who lives in his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, will voluntarily appear in court in Manhattan.
On Sunday, several Republican leaders came out in support of Trump, in particular his former vice president, Mike Pence, who broke with the magnate in 2021, and with whom he could compete in the primaries for the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
