Donald Trump is the first former US President to be prosecuted. The New York case involves alleged undisclosed cash payments to an adult entertainer prior to the 2016 election.
Donald Trump is the first former US President to be prosecuted. The New York case involves alleged undisclosed cash payments to an adult entertainer prior to the 2016 election.
Mr. Trump denies wrongdoing, I know that the information is coming in Fast and furiously, just give us the latest of what we’ve heard today. This word is overused in recognition that this is indeed a genuine historic moment, but it is the historic moment in which a President or former President of the United States is charged with a crime for the first time.
We now know that this investigation has been going on for some time. We know these are pre-2016 payments to an adult movie star. General election we don’t know the details of the charges he’s facing but, we expect them to relate to that payment and whether an artic contravened bookkeeping Financial record-keeping laws and indeed potential state laws on Election contributions, now the district attorney in Manhattan has been hearing evidence for a good period of time.
Now he’s heard from a lot of witnesses, and we thZought that this had gone away for a little while, that they were still pondering uh what to do, but it’s clear now, that the grand jury that hears this evidence that votes on these issues has voted to indict Donald Trump, he’s been rallying his troops on this call and on this issue for the last few days he attacked the district attorney in Manhattan at a rally at the weekend.
He’s referred to Alvin Bragg who’s a black man as a racist as an animal, all sorts of other epithets as well. But now what’s happened is that Donald Trump is facing criminal charges. Now this is both a Jeo pardy for Donald Trump and an opportunity for Donald Trump this is something, he will see as a potential problem of course.
But also something that will help him to encourage his base to actually rise up, and don’t forget he’s already called on them. If this were to happen to protest, he’s already suggested there would be destruction and violence.
If this happened, so people will be holding their breath. Now these charges have been brought to see what his reaction is and to see what the reaction of his supporters is over the coming weeks indeed.
Talk:Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal : Well the brutal truth is that, Donald Trump will be asked to travel to New York to attend what’s called here a booking session and that means going to the district attorney’s office in Lower Manhattan, it’s a building that’s part of the courthouse, and he will have his fingerprints taken he, will have his mugshot taken, he will have his DNA taken he’ll then be taken before a judge, and they’ll have to enter a plea on the charges.
All that is what happens to Everyday accused people in this country, and it’ll happen to him as well. ow there’ll be some choreography around this with such a high profile figure. They’ll want to arrange this to avoid the potential for difficulties and for any trouble in the streets outside.
They’ve been building barricades at various points around this Court house. They were doing that last week. When we thought the job the charges were imminent, then so there will be a good deal of planning involved here, and we know, for example, that the New York Police Department the Secret Service have all been talking, to one another about what to do if this day came.
Now this day has come, and we will see it unfold on your television screens. The pictures of a former president facing criminal charges and his mug shot that will reverberate around the world. I imagine been watching the latest information coming through on this story.
Well just to I did hear it and the significance isn’t just he’s the first president former president to be indicted, he’s also the first twice impeached president. To be to go on to have a criminal and indictment, and he’s also the first former president criminally indicted who’s twice impeached, who is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination.
So things are happening now. It’ll be very quick on the American presidential race or on the Republican side, then there’s the investigation itself. DeSantis, Nikki Haley, they’re all trying to discredit.
The investigation that’s the angle they are taking one thing to watch, for is if any leading Republican just says, that an indicted former president should not run for president. He should step aside, so step one you could see, how it’s coming is discredit the investigation.
I already had the young Republicans of New York put out a statement already, saying that it was a quote cabal of radical figures who are going after the former president, but then on your point we know, that on January 6 people came to the Capitol.
Because president Trump asked them to, and he said it will be wild. He has been all but sane, come and demonstrate in my behalf in New York. Which is why, there’s all these security measures being taken and that will be closely watched.
Because if it happened once on January 6 there’s no way to know given all these circumstances and knowing the power, that President Trump has to be persuasive, and really his supporters there’s no way to know if this is going to happen again.
