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Donald Trump Is Indicted in New York: Live Updates
Last edited Thu Mar 30, 2023, 07:17 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: New York Times
Donald J. Trump was indicted in Manhattan on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to five people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation's first former president to face criminal charges.
In the coming days, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will likely ask Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment. The specific charges will be announced when he is arraigned. Mr. Trump has for decades avoided criminal charges despite persistent scrutiny and repeated investigations, creating an aura of legal invincibility that the indictment now threatens to puncture.
His actions surrounding his 2020 electoral defeat are now the focus of a separate federal investigation, and a Georgia prosecutor is in the final stages of an investigation into Mr. Trump's attempts to reverse the election results in that state.
But unlike the investigations that arose from his time in the White House, this case is built around a tawdry episode that predates Mr. Trump's presidency. The reality star turned presidential candidate who shocked the political establishment by winning the White House now faces a reckoning for a hush money payment that buried a sex scandal in the final days of the 2016 campaign. In a statement, Mr. Trump lashed out at Mr. Bragg, a Democrat, and portrayed the case as the continuation of a politically-motivated witch hunt against him.
Star Member swag (26,399 posts)
1. A few details -
'A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges.
The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now.
I will be interested to see exactly what felony is being charged... since the statute of limitations is long passed...
...and if he decided to try to charge a federal crime at the state level.
Star Member cstanleytech (24,794 posts)
6. What happens if Trump wins the election though? Would that essentially kill the case until
he is out of office?
Star Member YoshidaYui (40,286 posts)
41. i want to see him in HANDCUFFS and in an ORANGE JUMP SUIT!!!
BEEN asking this for years now!!
Star Member Jarqui (9,211 posts)
67. One down ...
I hope they run the table:
Other NY State financial crimes
IRS crimes
GA election interference
MI election interference
Mar-a-lago classified docs
Jan 6th insurrection so he can never hold public office again
AG James $250 mil civil suit wipes him out financially and shutters his companies.
Ms Carroll's rape and defamation suits
Capitol Police + other civil suits for Jan 6th
And that they get the folks who helped him do the above.
We didn't do it with Nixon.
We need to do it here - to make sure anyone going in that Oval Office knows they're not above the law.
Star Member Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (97,267 posts)
73. This is the one I could care less about
Remember John Edwards was acquitted in a similar case.
I want to see Trump indicted for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
Star Member musicblind (4,478 posts)
83. This is history.
Remember where you were when you first heard this news. Remember what you were doing. Your grandkids will want to know.
Remember this date, March 30th, 2023. The day the United States fell.
