After America has been in suspense for 10 days, the hypothetical criminal indictment against Donald Trump in a case of buying an actress’ silence from X movies is not expected to come before the end of April, the press reports Wednesday.
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The former White House tenant, who dreams of “taking it back” in 2024, must answer before the New York State Justice and his Manhattan attorney, Alvin Bragg, for a $130,000 payment to the actress and pornographic director Stormy Daniels.
While the press was buzzing with rumors of a possible indictment in early March, Donald Trump had pulled off a political coup on March 18 by claiming without a shred of evidence on his social network Truth Social that he would be “arrested” and appearing before a New Yorker court to be charged three days later.
But nothing happened.
And the country waited 10 days for this indictment, which would be unprecedented against a former American president.
The Washington Post, Politico and the New York Daily News said Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter, that the judiciary would not hear the case until March 24.
Since March 20, a grand jury — a panel of citizens with investigative powers that works with prosecutors and votes on indictments — has met only twice, and no further calls are planned.
The Manhattan Attorney’s Office asserts every day that it “cannot comment on grand jury-related matters.”
For his part, Donald Trump, who denies “any crime” and any connection with Stormy Daniels, had on Sunday and Monday ruled the investigation was “dead,” a “fraud” and “election interference” by “thugs” from before the year 2024 presidential elections were staged.
For years, the judiciary has been trying to determine whether the 76-year-old former Republican president was guilty of misrepresentation, a minor felony, or violating campaign finance laws, a felony, by giving money to porn actress Stormy Daniels, real name, Stephanie Clifford paid shortly before her election victory in November 2016.
What sense? So that she remains silent about an alleged extramarital affair 10 years earlier.
Prosecutor Bragg, an elected African-American Democrat, has been accused by Mr. Trump of being an “animal” and “racist” and by Republicans of having a “political motive” for his charges, denouncing “interference” in the investigation .