Former US President Donald Trump will be tried for rape in a New York City court starting on the 25th.
Although it is a rape charge, it is alleged that it happened 25 years ago in 1998, and the statute of limitations has long passed. Defendant Trump, who is driving the plaintiff woman as a ‘swindler’, does not have to appear in court, but may come out to look good to the jury.
Trump (76), who announced his third presidential run in November last year, was ‘blessed’ at the trial in April this year. On the 4th, he appeared in the Southern First Instance Court of New York City under the New York State Prosecutor’s Office and pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of accounting book manipulation and election law violations that the grand jury decided to indict.
He is accused of giving 130,000 dollars to prevent a porn star from revealing sexual relations. As a judicial district, the southern part of New York City is called New York County or Manhattan, and the grand jury granted all of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s request for an indictment.
Then, on the 13th, New York State Attorney General Letissa James testified after taking oath of witness in a private place in connection with the trial against Trump and his family. It is a civil suit on charges of financial violations by exaggerating the value of assets in order to obtain large bank loans, and the state attorney general requested compensation of $250 million. It is still at the stage of answering hundreds of questions from the plaintiffs and is still before a formal trial.
The civil trial for rape on the 25th will also be held in Manhattan, New York City, but the court is under the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, not New York State, and is expected to continue for about a week in the District Court of Southern New York State (SDNYUS). The plaintiff also added a charge of defamation to the defendant who pointed fingers at the alleged liar in the allegation of rape.
The female plaintiff, named E. Gene Carroll, is a writer and former magazine columnist. According to the plaintiff, Carol and Trump accidentally bumped into each other at the Bergdorf Goodman, an upscale Manhattan department store, more than 20 years ago. Trump was a prominent New York City real estate developer, a regular tabloid celebrity, and Carol was a writer and television presenter.
It was then that Trump asked Carol to help her choose a gift for a woman, and the two jokingly argued over who would do it, saying that one of them should try it on. Eventually, the two entered the dressing room together.
There, Carol alleged that Trump pushed her against a wall, unzipped her pants, and raped her. Trump counters that he never met the woman, let alone that.
In addition to these three trials, Trump could face at least three more trials. All of them are very serious issues as they are criminal trials. A Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury will soon decide whether or not to prosecute Trump after hearing prosecutors’ allegations that Trump called the Georgia Secretary of State to request a fraudulent count during the November 2020 presidential election count. There are also reports that the decision has already been made and only announcement remains.
Attorney General Merrick Garland is considering whether to charge Trump with sedition in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, far-right mob storming the Capitol. He is also investigating allegations that Trump took confidential documents to his sister-in-law, Mar-a-Lago, Florida, without permission. Garland has appointed a special prosecutor on both of these matters.
If the indictment is decided, the three criminal trials are expected to take a long time and the sentence will be heavy. But under US law, even if you are convicted and in prison, you can not only run for president, but if elected, you can govern the country there.
On the other hand, most states in the United States do not give the right to vote to those who have served more than one year in prison, let alone those in prison.
Source: Donga
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