A poll has found that about half of Americans believe the investigation is politically motivated, but a large majority find it believable that the former president paid the money
Former US president Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the US, March 18 2023. Picture: BRETT ROJO/USA TODAY SPORTS/BRETT ROJO/REUTERS
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has been investigating $130,000 paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final weeks of Trump’s 2016 election campaign. Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen has said he made the payments at Trump’s direction to buy her silence about Trump’s extramarital affair.
On Monday, the grand jury heard from a witness, lawyer Robert Costello, who said that Cohen acted on his own. Cohen has publicly said that Trump directed him to make the payments and has appeared twice before the grand jury.Republicans in the House of Representatives launched an investigation of Bragg’s office on Monday with a letter seeking communications, documents and testimony related to the effort. Bragg’s office said that would not affect its work.
Trump has escaped legal peril numerous times. In the White House, he weathered two attempts by Congress to remove him from office as well as a year-long probe into his campaign’s contacts with Russia in 2016.
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