Former US President Donald Trump will appear before a judge on Tuesday to hear charges brought against him by the New York attorney for a alleged payment he made in 2016 to porn actress, Stormy Danielsso as not to make public a sexual encounter they allegedly had in 2006, which the tycoon denies.
The hearing where the charges against him will be read is expected to be read at 3:15 pm in Argentina. Time before Trump will arrive in court in the middle of a gigantic security operation, in which the Secret Service and the Manhattan police are involved. Tycoon’s lawyers They have already announced that he will plead not guilty.
The episode marks the first time a former US president has been criminally indicted and there is a huge expectation for what can happen in Manhattan when Trump meets face-to-face with the judge and hears the content of the indictment.
In addition to Donald Trump, the undisputed protagonist of the saga, this historic accusation has three other fundamental protagonists, essential for understanding how we got here.
Donald Trump, the defendant
Although the allegations against the former president have not yet been revealed, several sources have pointed this out it could be around 30all relating to the alleged irregular payment to Daniels.
This cash delivery was made several weeks before the 2016 presidential election, presumably to prevent its publicity from jeopardizing Trump’s aspirations to reach the White House.
Furthermore, the prosecutor argues that the money came from campaign fundsversion that the entrepreneur’s defense denies, while ensuring that the payment was made with his own money.
Trump acknowledged in 2018 that he shelled out that money to pay the actress, but insisted it came not from his campaign machine, but from his personal funds. “They didn’t come from the countryside. came to me. In fact, the first thing I asked was if they were from the countryside (because) it might have been a bit shady,” she said later.
However, the fact that the payment was made to avoid political impact in the election could turn it into an election expense.
Stormy Daniels, the porn star
Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Cliffordborn in Baton Rouge (Louisana) in March 1979 and considered by many to be the ultimate shoe for Trumpwho knew how to treat him with his own presumption, sarcasm and insolence.
Daniels, who looks back on a long career as an actress in the porn world, says she had a brief sexual relationship with Trump during a golf game in 2006, when the former president was already married to Melania. Daniel he tried on at least two occasions to obtain economic returns of this alleged connection, first in 2011 and then in 2016.
When Daniels was looking for an outlet to sell his scoop in 2016, then-Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen, gave him the $130,000 in exchange for keeping his story a secret.
However, their relationship came to light in 2018 and, since then, Daniels has maintained a constant dialectical and legal confrontation with Trump and has tried to take advantage of it, publish a book, sell articles promotion or launch of a tour across the country christened as Make America horny againwhich could be translated as “Make America hot again”.
Michael Cohen, the loyal lawyer who turned against
It’s only been a year since Michael Cohen said he “I’d take a bullet for the presidentwho pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance rules at the “request of the presidential candidate”, i.e. Donald Trump.
Furthermore, he acknowledged that he had handled two payments before the presidential election, one of 130,000 for Daniels and another of 150,000 to the Playboy model Karen McDougal, also to prevent her from airing an alleged relationship with Trump.
Nicknamed the tycoon’s “pit bull”.Cohen had been linked to Trump since 2007, when he joined the Trump Organization, and over time became his personal legal adviser, a position in which his commitment outdated practices which one would normally expect from a lawyer.
“If you do something wrong (against Trump), I will look for you, I’ll grab you by the throat and won’t let go until I’m done“He came to say this in an interview with the ABC channel.
Alvin Bragg, the first prosecutor to put a former president in the dock
Alvin Bragg, black and of the Democratic Party, began his tenure as New York attorney on January 1, 2022, following the termination of his predecessor, Cyrus Vance, who also gained notoriety for investigating Trump.
It emerged in November 2022 that Bragg, who had worked at the US Attorney’s Office, had An investigation into the role of former President Trump has been reactivated in the payment to Daniels, a case that his predecessor had dismissed.
Since Trump announced last month that his impeachment was a matter of days away, Bragg has received all kinds of threatsincluding an envelope with white powders sent to the prosecutor’s offices, and which it was later learned that they were not dangerous.
Likewise, she was the target of verbal attacks and name-calling from Trump supporters and the businessman himself, who, upon learning that the accusation was effective, criticized her on his Truth Social platform.
“They brought this false, corrupt and shameful charge against me only because I stand with the American people,” he wrote, “and they know I can’t get a fair trial in New York,” wrote Trump, who did not hesitate to qualify bribed the City Attorney’s Office.
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