The Manhattan district attorney’s office may reopen the criminal investigation against the former president, Donald Trumpin the case of the silence payments to the porn actress, Stormy Daniels. The New York Times reported today (Tuesday) that the new prosecutor, Alvin Braggexpressed optimism that the case against Trump can be built even though the investigation has reached a dead end, through an attempt to recruit Trump’s former financier, Alan Weiselbergalthough Weiselberg has so far refused to testify against the former boss.
The re-examination is amid a legal whirlwind around the former president. Last Friday, the U.S. attorney general appointed a special prosecutor who said he would pursue two federal investigations against the president. If so, it’s unclear whether an indictment will ultimately be filed against Trump, who has just announced a renewed run for the U.S. presidency in 2024. .
For Bragg, the developments indicate the first signs of progress since he took office earlier this year, when he avoided incriminating Trump about his business practices. Under Mr. Bragg’s predecessor, the district attorney’s office rejected the idea of focusing the case on the hush money, concluding, with the help of outside legal experts, that it would depend “on an untested and therefore dangerous legal theory. If Mr. Bragg had decided that Trump was guilty, without revealing the evidence The news, he would have gotten involved in the fact that the court would have supported the appeal of the case.”
In the meantime, to help build the case, prosecutors explored another new strategy that has yet to succeed, and that is to pressure Trump’s former financier, Alan Weiselberg. While he has already been charged with tax fraud, and testified last week against Trump’s company, he has not yet agreed to cooperate. To increase the pressure, the residents are considering a new round of charges against him, hoping to secure his cooperation against the former president.