The Manhattan Criminal Court woke up this Tuesday surrounded by local and international media waiting to get more details on the Manhattan Attorney’s investigation into alleged payments by former President Donald Trump to porn actress Stormy Daniels, and with small pro- and anti-Republican protest groups.
Early Tuesday morning, about 20 people, mostly retirees, protested outside the courthouse against the former president and current candidate in the 2024 presidential primaries with placards that read: “Trump is guilty” AND “No one is above the law”. They also exhibited Cartoons of Trump behind bars and in a prisoner’s uniform.
Protesters and the press were separated by metal fences and watched over by a heavy police presence.
Trump faces several legal cases, the most immediate is the investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has been going on for almost five years and focuses on a $130,000 payment to Daniels, presumably in exchange for his silence about a sexual relationship during the campaign that ended up landing him in the White House in 2017.
Time of crisis for Trump
a grand jury he has to decide whether or not to prosecute the former president and if Trump is impeached, he will become the first former US president to face a criminal charge.
Trump said last week on his social network, Truth Media, that he heard it he would be charged this Tuesday.
But officials have remained silent on any news about the Manhattan Criminal Court grand jury, whose proceedings are taking place out of public view.
According to CNBC, the next scheduled date for the grand jury is Wednesday and other media outlets also agree on this The grand jury decision won’t happen this Tuesday but at the latest on Wednesday.
The former president, who is believed to be in his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach (Florida) on Tuesday, claims he is the victim of a “witch hunt”.
Trump on Tuesday asked his “74 million constituents” to sign a letter against the “threats of possible arrest”.
New York authorities this week prepared to do so respond to possible protests in the city.
Pro-death rallies are expected this Tuesday at both the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse and Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, although there were no Trump supporters in either venue this morning, both sheltered by a significant police presence.
On Monday, about twenty of his supporters demonstrated in front of the Manhattan Criminal Court and a dozen did so in front of Trump Tower.
Source: EFE
Source: Clarin
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