NEW YORK: Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former US president to face criminal charges even as he makes another run for the White House, a law enforcement source said on Thursday (Mar 30). The charge
Trump, a divisive figure in US politics with support particularly among white blue-collar and conservative Christian voters, served as president from 2017 to 2021, governing as a right-wing populist.
Trump on Mar 18 wrote on social media that he had expected to be arrested on Mar 21 and urged his supporters to protest to"take our nation back," reminiscent of his exhortations ahead of the Jan 6, 2021,attack on the US Capitol. Three House Republican committee chairmen asked Bragg to provide them communications, documents and testimony about the investigation.
In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance law violations for his role in orchestrating the payments to Daniels and McDougal and was sentenced to three years in prison. He testified that Trump directed him to make the payments. The US Supreme Court in 2021 rejected her bid to revive a defamation lawsuit she brought against Trump over a Twitter post in which he accused her of a"con job" after she described being threatened over publicising her account of a sexual relationship with him. Lower courts had thrown out her suit.
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