Donald Trump says he will be “arrested” and calls for demonstrations

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Donald Trump assured Saturday March 18 on his social network Truth Social that he was going to be ” stopped “ Tuesday and called for 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 capital letters: “The Republican Party candidate far ahead (his rivals in the primary, Editor’s note) and former President of the United States of America is going to be arrested on Tuesday of next week. Demonstrate, take back our nation! »

Signs and rumors have been multiplying for a few days on a possible criminal indictment of Donald Trump by a grand jury – a panel of citizens with broad investigative powers and responsible for ratifying an indictment – in this phase of investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democratic magistrate. It would be a first for a former US president.

On Friday, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers, Joseph Tacopina, told the media that his client was “would make” to New York justice if he were to be charged.

A payment of $130,000

Targeted in several court cases, but never yet charged, the former Republican president (2017-2021) and presidential candidate of 2024, could therefore see this threat materialized in court in New York, because of a payment in 2016 to a pornographic actress, Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.

Last week, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and now one of his worst enemies, Michael Cohen, testified at least twice before the grand jury in this investigation related to a nondisclosure agreement involving Stephanie Clifford. The investigations of the New York prosecutors relate to the payment in 2016 of 130,000 dollars by Michael Cohen to the pornographic actress to buy her silence on an alleged relationship she allegedly had with Donald Trump. Former loyal to the Republican billionaire, Michael Cohen has already been convicted in this case.

Capitol Assault

Convinced that the 2020 election had been his “volley” by Joe Biden, Donald Trump had already called on his supporters to mobilize ahead of January 6, 2021, stoking the political crisis which culminated in the assault of his supporters on Capitol Hill, where Congress sits.

On December 19, 2020, the ex-businessman had called in a tweet the crowd to gather in the American capital during the certification of the victory of Joe Biden. “Big demonstration in Washington on January 6th. Be there, it will be crazy”, he had written on Twitter, his favorite megaphone, before being banned. The same day, he then called on his supporters, during a speech, to “beat like the devils”.

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