Manhattan – Former President Donald Trump was charged by a great jury in New York for his role in a silent payment made to a film star for adults in the 2016 elections – an unprecedented and monumental development which is certain to shake up American policy while the country is preparing for another election.
In a statement, Trump said the indictment is “political persecution” and “electoral engineers at the highest level in history”.
“Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to” get Trump “, but now they have done the unthinkable – indicating a completely innocent person in an act of flagrant electoral interference,” the statement said.
The indictment led by the Manhattan district prosecutor’s office, which confirmed the indictment on Thursday, marks the first time in American history as a president – former or current – was charged to the criminal. This also occurs while Trump, who has so often seemed to escape real consequences on his many scandals and misdeeds, makes another race for the White House.
Trump will now have to be officially arrested and translated like any other defendant – an astonishing fall in grace for someone who was once one of the most powerful people on the planet. But unlike others who appear in court, Trump will be accompanied by secret service agents as he does. Trump would have been in Mar-A-Lago in Florida on Thursday, and a spokesperson for the Manhattan district prosecutor Alvin Bragg said that his office was working with Trump lawyers to coordinate his surrender and select an indictment date.
The news of the indictment, although amazing, was not unexpected. For weeks, legal and media observers were preparing for the possibility that Trump was charged while the Grand Jury of Manhattan held evidence on the payment of $ 130,000 to an adult artist Stormy Danielswhose real name is Stephanie Clifford and who allegedly alleged that she had sex with Trump in 2006 – an assertion he denied.
