The former president of the United States is being investigated by the New York district attorney for allegedly buying actress Stormy Daniels’ silence about an affair they both had.
The former president of the United States, Donald Trump, said this Saturday that he believes he will be arrested next Tuesday, as part of the judicial investigation into suspicions that Trump ordered a secret payment to the porn actress Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about a relationship. extramarital.
Through a set of messages posted on his own social network, Truth Social, Donald Trump says that the US is now a “third world country and is dying” and that “the American dream is dead” because of the radical “left anarchists”. who stole our elections.”
“American patriots are being held and captive like animals, while left-wing criminals and thugs are allowed to roam the streets, killing and burning without consequence,” Trump wrote, also criticizing “open borders” and the destruction of the American “way of life”. ”.
In a second message, Trump goes further and says that “illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly political Manhattan district attorney’s office (…) indicate that, without proven crime and only based on an old fairy tale and already dismantled ( by various other prosecutors), the leading Republican candidate and former US president will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.”
“Speak up, take back our nation,” Trump calls at the end of the message, in which he does not present any evidence that his arrest is imminent.
Trump under investigation for secret payment to pornographic actress
In November 2022, the new Manhattan district attorney announced that he would reinvestigate former US President Donald Trump’s role in secretly paying the pornographic actress during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The scandal dates back to 2018, when The Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, had paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016, shortly before that year’s presidential election, to buy her silence about an affair. that Daniels and Trump had had. 2006.
After the news, the pornographic actress made public that she had been forced to sign the confidentiality agreement, opening the doors to a controversy that would lead to the arrest of the lawyer Michael Cohen, but without direct responsibility of Trump.
Donald Trump asked to testify before a grand jury in New York for alleged bribery of Stormy Daniels
Now, the new Manhattan prosecutor, Alvin L. Bragg, has returned to the origins of the investigation to determine Trump’s direct responsibility for the payment – in a case that is being investigated by a grand jury, which has already announced its intention to listen to Trump. the same
According to The Guardian, New York City authorities have been making security preparations for the possibility of Donald Trump being indicted, although there is still no word on when the grand jury responsible for the investigation will meet to vote on whether to indict Trump. Trump.
Source: Observadora
