Donald Trump was once again on everyone’s lips by becoming the first former president in the history of the United States to face criminal charges. The indictment, carried out by the Grand Jury of the Manhattan Court, focuses on alleged payments in exchange for silence, in the middle of the 2016 presidential campaign, to the porn actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he allegedly had a relationship in the past. .
And everything indicates that the saga of this sexual scandal has only just begun. In fact, it is one of many pending accounts that the New York tycoon currently has with Justice. Of all of them, the indictment by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office seemed the least important.
A total of 34 accusations launched and that the former Republican president, who due to the condition of his position had immunity until just over two years ago, accumulates behind his back. Although it was he himself who spread the rumor by assuring, a few days ago, that he would be arrested – mobilizing his bases again for the next electoral contest – his relatives now assure that the information bomb of his accusation would have caught him by surprise. .
«They have only brought this false, corrupt and disgraceful accusation against me because I am with the American People,” Donald Trump reacted on his Truth Social account shortly after the news of his imputation broke. “And they know I can’t have a fair trial in New York!” The 23 members of the New York Grand Jury, from the Manhattan Court, voted by a majority of at least 12 people to move forward with the indictment. Details that are still unknown are expected to be revealed over the next few days, including the exact charges of the prosecution. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed that he had contacted Trump’s lawyers to coordinate his surrender and arraignment. If such delivery did not occur voluntarily, the authorities could issue an extradition order from Florida, where his current residence is located.
Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and potential main competitor of Trump from the Republican side, calls the decision of the US Judiciary to impeach the former president “un-American”.
Denouncing that the Democrats have launched a “witch hunt” against him, Trump maintains that he will not be able to have a fair trial in New York, where the Prosecutor’s Office was directly assigned by the Biden Administration. Although without making much noise, some heavyweights of the Republican Party came to his defense, criticizing liberals for carrying out what they consider a “political persecution” against the tycoon and, therefore, against his own political formation.
The president of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, accuses the prosecutor of having “irreparably damaged” the country to “interfere” in the upcoming presidential elections, and anticipates that “the American people” will not tolerate it. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the sons of the tycoon, accuse “the fascist left” of being “hungry for power” and of doing “whatever it takes to crush their opponents”, calling the accusation “Third World conduct”.
Yesterday, at 8 in the morning local time, just before boarding the presidential helicopter, Marine One, together with the first lady, Joe Biden responded to multiple questions from correspondents on the subject with “I have no comment on that.” » each and every time. The White House had not yet reacted to the news that monopolized all the front pages.
It did, however, the Democratic National Committee in issuing a statement. “No matter what happens in the upcoming legal proceedings against Trump, it is obvious that the Republican Party remains firmly in the control of Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans,” DNC press secretary Ammar Moussa wrote, calling out his political rivals. of “leaning extremists that include banning abortion, health benefits, and free and fair elections.”
Whatever happens, Donald Trump has long anticipated that He intends to go ahead with his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections. An impeachment trial could have prevented him from running for re-election, also preventing him from holding federal office in the future, but Trump emerged undefeated from two impeachment processes, being acquitted on both occasions by the then Republican majority in the Senate.
Now, however, such a conviction would not prevent the former Republican president from continuing to legally compete for the White House. And so he has given it to understand, when he has had the opportunity. There are no precedents for a similar situation, but neither is there anything that prevents anyone from being a candidate for the US presidency, even behind bars.
Another of the uncertain scenarios that will take place in the next few hours are the protests that his possible arrest on Tuesday would bring as a consequence in the main cities of the country, to which it is feared that his followers could even go armed, as happened with the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Discussion about this post