Former President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that any charges against him could result in “potential death and destruction, … catastrophic for our country.” In this way, he reacted to a possible decision of the New York prosecutor’s office in the case related to the payment of silence for porn actress Stormy Daniels.
“What type of person can bring criminal charges against another person, in this case, the former president of the United States … when it is known that no crime has been committed and it is known that the potential death and destruction associated with such false allegations would be catastrophic for our country ?” – Trump wrote on his social network TRUTH Social.
It was another in a series of statements by the former president suggesting riots in connection with the possible decision of the state prosecutor’s office in Manhattan to bring charges against him.
“Our country is being destroyed and they are telling us to be peaceful!” – he wrote on Thursday, comparing the prosecutor’s office to the Gestapo, Russia and China.
The investigation by the Manhattan prosecutor’s office is related to the case from the 2016 election campaign. Trump was then supposed to pay porn actress Stormy Daniels 130,000. hole. for keeping quiet about their alleged affair. In 2018, Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen, who paid for the silence of Daniels and model Karen McDougal, was sentenced by a federal court to three years in prison, among other things for violating election campaign finance regulations. The federal prosecutor’s office decided not to prosecute Trump in the same case, but the state’s attorney’s office took up the investigation.
While Trump predicted last week that he would be arrested on Tuesday, CNN said a possible decision on the matter would not be made this week. The grand jury investigating the case will hold another hearing on Monday.
Following Trump’s calls for protests in his defense, authorities in New York and Washington have taken extra steps to secure courthouses. In New York, there were metal barriers and cameras installed.
The Daniels payment case is just one of several Trump-related cases under investigation by state and federal prosecutors. Among other things, they are tested his activities involving the storming of the Capitol, the holding of classified documents, and his attempts to alter the election results in Georgia.
From Washington Oskar Górzyński (PAP)
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