“Protest, take back our nation!” » In a message posted on Saturday March 18 on his Truth Social social network, Donald Trump assured that he would be ” stopped “ on Tuesday and called on his supporters to protests, ahead of a possible indictment in a 2016 payout case to buy the silence of a pornographic actress he allegedly had an affair with.
Evoking a ” leak “ from the New York State Attorney’s Office for the District of Manhattan, the former US President wrote in block letters: “The Republican Party candidate far ahead [ses rivaux à la primaire] and former President of the United States of America will be arrested on Tuesday of next week. ! »
Cited in several court cases, but never charged so far, Donald Trump could soon see this threat materialized in court in New York, because of the payment in 2016 of 130,000 dollars to the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford of his real name) to buy her silence about an alleged relationship she allegedly had with the billionaire.
On Monday, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and now one of his worst enemies, Michael Cohen, testified before a grand jury in the nondisclosure agreement investigation. Arriving in court, the man who had given explosive and damning testimony about Donald Trump before a parliamentary committee in 2019, felt that the candidate for the Republican nomination had to “accountable for his crap”.
Michael Cohen was sentenced, after pleading guilty, to three years in prison, in particular for having orchestrated this payment in violation of the laws on the financing of electoral campaigns. He assured that he acted at the request of the former Republican candidate, who would have reimbursed him once he arrived at the White House.
A criminal charge would be a first for a former president of the United States. This prospect is also not to be excluded in the file on the attempts of the Trump camp to modify in its favor the results of the presidential election in the State of Georgia in 2020, a grand jury having recommended indictments without revealing any name.