Trump was led by Matthew Colangelo, center, and Susan Hoffinger, center left, as well as Chris Conroy. One of them carried a copy of the penal law, which was most likely used to read the criminal statutes to the grand jurors before they voted. The first sign that an indictment was imminent on Thursday came just before 2 in the afternoon, when the three lead prosecutors on the Trump investigation walked into the Lower Manhattan building where the grand jury was sitting. “We will vigorously fight this political prosecution in court.” Necheles and Joseph Tacopina, said in a statement. “President Trump did not commit any crime,” Mr. He has also denied any affair with the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who had been looking to sell her story of a tryst with Mr. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by his supporters. Trump, who has consistently denied all wrongdoing, has already called on his followers to protest his arrest, in language reminiscent of his social media posts in the weeks before the Jan. The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg “a disgrace” and casting himself as “a completely innocent person.” “This is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history,” Mr. Bragg, a Democrat, and portrayed the case as the continuation of a politically motivated witch hunt against him. Trump lashed out at the district attorney, Alvin L. The reality star turned presidential candidate who shocked the political establishment by winning the White House now faces a reckoning for a hush-money payment that buried a sex scandal in the final days of the 2016 campaign.
Capitol - this case is built around a tawdry episode that predates Mr.
Trump has for decades avoided criminal charges despite persistent scrutiny and repeated investigations, creating an aura of legal invincibility that the indictment now threatens to puncture.īut unlike the investigations that arose from his time in the White House - which examined his strong-arm tactics on the international stage, his attempts to overturn the election and his summoning of a mob to the steps of the U.S. Trump faces more than two dozen counts, according to two people familiar with the matter. He will then be arraigned, at which point the specific charges will be unsealed. Trump is likely to turn himself in on Tuesday, at which point the former president will be photographed and fingerprinted in the bowels of a New York State courthouse, with Secret Service agents in tow.
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