Will Donald Trump be sued in New York this week for an actress’ silence from X movies in 2016? After claiming he would be brought to justice, the ex-president gave assurances over the weekend that the criminal case had been dropped.
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Since Mr. Trump wrote in capital letters on March 18 on his social network Truth Social that he was “arrested” and would appear in court in New York on March 21 to be charged, but nothing happened, New York is due this hypothesis suspended charges.
That would be unprecedented against a former US President.
A grand jury — a citizen panel with wide investigative powers that works with prosecutors — reportedly reconvened Monday in Manhattan court to hear a witness in the case threatening Mr Trump.
If this grand jury, whose confidential hearings take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, votes in favor of an indictment, the prosecutor must comply and announce it.
The next meeting will generally take place on March 29th.
Donald Trump, 76-year-old former Republican president (2017-2021) who dreams of “taking back” the White House in 2024 is facing a $130,000 payout before the New York State Justice and his Manhattan attorney, Alvin Bragg to porn actress and director Stormy Daniels.
The judiciary is trying to determine whether he was guilty of false declarations, a felony, or violating election finance laws, a felony, by offering money to this woman, whose real name was Stephanie Clifford, shortly before he won the November 2016 election had paid .
What sense? So that, according to the prosecutor, she had concealed an alleged extramarital relationship ten years earlier.
Accused by Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers of having a “political motive,” District Attorney Bragg, a Democrat-elect who has headed the Manhattan Attorney’s Office since 2022, responded by email Thursday that the businessman had “a false expectation” about the media his indictment denounced “interference” in the investigation.
At a campaign meeting in Texas on Saturday, Mr Trump, singled out by the Washington Post and New York Times for occasionally flirting with incitement to violence, had denied “any crime” and any association with Stormy Daniels.
According to the political medium Axios, he was further on his return flight: “I think they have already given up on the case (…) It’s a sham affair. The kind of bogus deals they have absolutely nothing in.”
And the 45th President of the United States drove home the point on Truth Social on Sunday: “The Manhattan District Attorney’s witch hunt against me is DEAD.”
He still has to explain himself on Monday at 9 p.m. in an interview on Fox News, the Conservatives’ favorite station. A first in ages after a significant deterioration in relations between Fox News and Donald Trump since his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.