Donald Trump is still at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. During the past weekend the former president had announced without any evidence on his own social network, TruthSocialthat on Tuesday, March 21, his “imminent arrest” was going to take place, but for the moment he has not been seen passing through Manhattan and it is not known if he will be accused of violating electoral laws.
The jury, made up of 23 people and charged with voting for or against Trump’s accusation, has not met since last Monday. They were scheduled to do so on Wednesday and Thursday at 2 pm local time, but the judge told them there would be no session. Even so, his absence has not prevented since then nearly 80 media outlets from different countries from standing guard in front of the Manhattan Criminal Court (where the grand jury has met in recent weeks to evaluate the evidence and witnesses in the case). ), waiting for some kind of official information. The same is expected, or at least an image of the former president, all week by the nearly 20 media outlets that stand guard at the gates of the famous Trump Tower, property of the ex-president.
It seems that the call for the Republican leader has penetrated the press, but not so much among his followers. There were no more than eight Trump supporters every day, and the odd one dropped by simply to take advantage of the media pull and pose for the cameras, rather than defend his leader.
What will happen next week is something difficult to specify, as events have transpired so far. No official source is reporting on the timing of the process. In fact, it has not even been confirmed why the two previous scheduled sessions have been cancelled. let’s not forget that grand jury meetings are secretThat is why little or no information has been offered at an official level.
What we do know is the answer to some questions that many share on both sides of the Atlantic, because the former president has managed to capture the attention of half the world. And now what? What if Donald Trump is impeached? Are they going to stop him? Will they handcuff him? Can you run as a candidate for the 2024 elections?
It must be made clear that, even if Trump is accused, this would not prevent the ex-president from continuing with his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections. In fact, at the famous annual meeting of Republicans around the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump made it clear that this does not change his political aspirations to reach the White House, “I wouldn’t even consider leaving it for a second,” he said then, “probably something like that would get me votes.” Sources close to him point out that Trump is prepared to turn his process into a media spectacle in the event that he has to go through the Manhattan courts, something that the prosecutor will try to avoid, according to some local media, trying to ensure that if he has to Going to testify in Manhattan, do so in the strictest discretion.
The first thing that has to happen for Donald Trump to be impeached is that at least 12 of the 23 members that make up the grand jury vote in favor of this indictment. If that happens, for example, next week, the former president would have to appear to testify before the court. He could also make his statement remotely, but sources close to the former president have already revealed that he wants to give his version in person. In addition, every time he looks more confident, one only has to see one of his latest publications in Truth Social, where he publishes a letter supposedly delivered by Michael Cohen’s lawyer to the Federal Election Commission (FEC, for its acronym in English) in 2018 that clears him, says Trump, of all guilt.
Nor is it clear that this accusation will arrive next week because it is not ruled out that the jury will hear the testimony of more witnesses related to the case.
If we remain in the hypothesis that he is found guilty, the next step would be to take his fingerprints, create your mug shot (this is where those front and profile movie photos are taken), and read you your rights, those that begin with: ¨you have the right to remain silent¨. Later he would appear before the judge for the reading of charges, in this case even that is not very clear. He faces a crime of falsifying documents that in the State of New York is punishable withwith up to four years in prison. Next, Donald Trump must tell the judge if he pleads guilty or not guilty.
It is also possible that the jury does not see sufficient grounds to indict you and the process does not go forward. In that case, Donald Trump would have time to focus on his other pending criminal cases: that of the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, for the well-known “pucherazo” and that of the Department of Justice for the assault on the Capitol. In addition to the many other civil cases that he has underway, including the one related to the accounts of the Trump Organization and the classified documents found in his Mar-a-Lago mansion.
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