Apr 05, 2023 05:35
During the hearing, the judge read out 34 counts: The former US President is accused of having paid two women, but pleads “not guilty”. White House: “We condemn all attacks on judges”
Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty 34 countsincluding the conspiracy for which he performed in court in New York for preliminary hearing as part of the procedure Stormy Daniels case. “My only crime was standing up for America. Nothing was done illegally. a great day The investigation is a farce‘ the tycoon explained upon returning to his residence Mar-a-Lago, Fla. Trump, first former US President to be criminally investigated and imprisoned, was charged for paying the former porn star $130,000 from his campaign funds in 2016 to cover up an extramarital affair. the former president, released without restrictionsShe is also accused of having them also paid for another woman and an usher. The new hearing takes place December 4ththe start of the process in 2024.
Photo gallery – Trump in court in Manhattan
That’s what the prosecutor asked
witness protection. The allegations against the former tenant of the White House also include taking part in one
conspiracy undermining the integrity of the 2016 election, including through
a series of payments to stifle three “embarrassing affairs”. before the presidential campaign.
Photo gallery – Trump returns to Mar-a-Lago after hearing and addresses his supporters
Trump’s speech Trump devoted much of his speech after the hearing, which lasted about 25 minutes and was described by many analysts as “short and overwhelming,” to attacking his political opponents and challenging other investigations he was involved in into election interference in the United States Georgia was involved in 2020, to the classified documents found by the FBI in Mar-a-Lago, in the summer of 2022. “I never thought something like this could happen in America. The only crime I committed was defending America from those who want to destroy it,” Trump thundered to cheers of support from his supporters.
The attack on Joe Biden: “He wants World War III” On that last point, Trump also attacked President Joe Biden, reiterating that he had declassified all documents found by authorities in his private home. “Biden wants to start World War III. He did everything when he was a senator,” the tycoon underlined, citing the issuance of top-secret papers found in his offices. Referring to the classified papers found over the past few months in structures used by Biden during his tenure as vice president and senator, Trump explained that “a vice president, like a senator, cannot release anything: it is unacceptable behavior, but it doesn’t. It doesn’t seem to me that they persecute him like they do those who work for me. Trump then attacked the federal government, accusing the Biden administration of “exploiting the now-banned US judicial system to win elections.”
Trump vs All After reiterating that all investigations against him were “political prosecutions,” the tycoon insults prosecutors involved in the process: from Bragg, “paid by George Soros,” to Letitia James, to Jack Smith, who was involved in the investigation the top involved brought classified papers from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, which he described as “crazy”. All, according to the former American president, are tools of the “radical left” aimed at “stopping them at all costs”. The Atlanta, Georgia prosecutor’s investigation is also “a false case of interference in the 2024 election and should be terminated immediately” for Trump, who called the call in which he advocated the 2020 vote in that state to tip “perfect”. Before taking the stage at his resort, the Republican accused Bragg of “shutting down New York, mobilizing 38,000 agents and spending $200,000 in city funds on a $130,000 statutory non-disclosure agreement.”
The hearing and the indictment During a 15th-floor hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, Trump pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of misstatement. There is no reference to the crime of the conspiracy in the indictment, which was released at the end of the hearing before Judge Juan Merchan. According to the text signed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the crime of forgery “to cover up criminal conduct aimed at concealing information that could have damaged reputation” would have been committed by Trump, in connection with the election campaign for the 2016 presidential election. The document does not explain what “criminal conduct” the former president and his staff attempted to conceal by falsifying documents (a necessary condition for false accounting to be a criminal offense), and Bragg said in a news conference , that the judicial authorities are not obliged to specify this at the moment.
Photo Gallery – Trump supporters take to the streets in New York and Mar-a-Lago
The $130,000 in the prosecutor’s sights Speaking to reporters, Bragg simply said Trump violated the New York state electoral law that makes it a criminal offense to falsify corporate documents when there is a desire to conceal or cover up other criminal activities. The investigation by the Manhattan Attorney’s Office focuses on the $130,000 allegedly paid to porn star Stephanie Clifford, known by the stage name Stormy Daniels, in 2016. The sum would have been paid to keep the woman quiet about a relationship she had ten years earlier with Trump, whose attorney at the time, Michael Cohen, admitted personally handling the transaction. The money, the indictment said, would later be booked as “legal expenses” for the Trump Organization. According to the court documents, the allegations relate to a total of three payments by Trump’s employees to as many women, including Daniels, who the judicial authorities want to call as a witness at the next hearing on December 4th. The payments allegedly went to Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy magazine model, and a woman employed at Trump Tower, whose name was not released. The three women received $130,000, $150,000 and $30,000 respectively.
White House: “We condemn any attack on judges” In a news conference, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre responded to a question about former President Donald Trump’s rants against prosecutors and judges: “We condemn all attacks on judges or the judicial system.”
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