Donald Trump, former President of the United States.
Former US leader Donald Trump denounced on Monday that the investigation against him for allegedly buying the silence of a porn actress is a form of “electoral interference” orchestrated by “bandits” before the 2024 presidential election.
Source: AFP
The 76-year-old Republican tycoon, a candidate for a new presidential term, is under investigation in New York state for a 2016 payment of $130,000 to actress and pornographic film director Stormy Daniels.
After the press announced that he could become the first former president to sit on the bench, Trump stated on March 18 on his Truth Social network that he was going to be “arrested” and taken to appear before a court on March 21. court.
Nothing happened, but the country remains attentive to a possible charge.
In an interview on conservative Fox News from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump on Monday called Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s investigation a “scam.”
“I think it is a way to cheat in the elections. It is electoral interference,” said the Republican, who insists that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him by Democratic President Joe Biden.
“We are dealing with dishonest people, bandits, and people, I think, who hate our country,” denounced the billionaire.
Bragg, a popularly-elected Democrat, formed the grand jury in January following an investigation into $130,000 paid to Stormy Daniels more than seven years ago.
The payment was made weeks before the 2016 election, allegedly to prevent Daniels from going public with a relationship he says he had with Trump years earlier.
Trump, who ruled from 2017 to 2021, denies the affair and has called the investigation a “witch hunt.”
If the payment was not properly accredited, it could result in a misdemeanor for accounting falsification, although at the same time, it could have violated the electoral campaign finance law, which can carry 4 years in jail.
The grand jury in the case is due to meet in principle on Wednesday. If you vote in favor of the indictment, DA Bragg must abide by it and make it public.
In the following days, Trump would then have to “appear” in court in Manhattan to be notified of the indictment by a judge and would be briefly “under arrest” to be photographed and fingerprinted. Next, he would have to plead guilty or not guilty.
