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Former US President Donald Trump at a rally for the 2024 election campaign in Waco, Texas on March 25, 2023.
UNITED STATES – As rumors of possible indictment swirled in the press, on the morning of March 18 Donald Trump had pulled off a coup by claiming, without a shred of evidence, on his social network Truth Social that he was being “arrested” and would do so will appear in court in New York on March 21 to face charges.
Despite this, Donald Trump is still free. And America is suspended again this week from this hypothetical charge, unprecedented against a former American president.
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Back to Fox News
But a new twist came this Monday, March 27, after an interview aired on Conservatives’ favorite channel Fox News, taped from his home in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., where Donald Trump is investigating “fraud” initiated by prosecutor Alvin Bragg.
“I don’t know if it’s good or bad (for his candidacy in 2024). In my opinion, this is a form of voter fraud. It’s election interference,” accused the Republican billionaire, who for nearly two and a half years has been claiming without basis that the November 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from him by Democratic President Joe Biden.
“We’re dealing with dishonest people and thugs and people, I think, who hate our country,” the businessman denounced in his first interview in ages to Fox News, the television network of media empire New Corp. by Rupert Murdoch, with whom relations deteriorated following his 2020 election defeat.
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For several years, the New York judiciary has been trying to determine whether Donald Trump is guilty of misrepresentation, a minor offense, or a violation of campaign finance laws, a felony, simply by giving money to porn actress Stormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford , paid before her presidential victory in November 2016.
What sense? So that, according to the prosecutor, she had concealed an alleged extramarital relationship ten years earlier.
A “fake” affair
Accused by the former president and Republican lawmakers of having a “political motive,” District Attorney Bragg, a Democrat-elected chief of the Manhattan Attorney’s Office since 2022, responded by email last Thursday that the businessman had “created a false expectation in the media.” . on his charges and denounced “interference” in the investigation.
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At a campaign rally in Texas on Saturday, Donald Trump, singled out by the Washington Post and New York Times for occasionally flirting with inciting violence among his supporters, had denied “any crime” and any connection to Stormy Daniels. On Fox News Monday night, the 45th President of the United States did not change his speech.
On Saturday night, on the plane returning from Texas, he’d even claimed the case was “bogus, the kind of bogus deal they have absolutely nothing to do with.”
“I think they have already dropped the case,” he told political media Axios. And the 45th President of the United States, driving home the point on Truth Social on Sunday: “The Manhattan DA’s witch hunt against me is DEAD.”
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According to the New York court press, a grand jury (a panel of citizens with broad investigative powers who work with prosecutors to potentially vote on criminal charges) convened again Monday in Manhattan court to hear a witness in the Stormy Daniels case.
If this grand jury, which has confidential hearings on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, votes in favor of an indictment, then Attorney Bragg must comply and make it public. In the days that followed, ex-President Trump must then “go” to court in Manhattan to be served by a judge with his indictment, briefly “arrested,” photographed, and fingerprinted.
He must then plead guilty or not guilty. The next grand jury session is generally on Wednesday. And Donald Trump should carefully examine a possible media intervention by prosecutor Bragg.
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