The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” investigation on Thursday voted to indict the former president, sources told The Post.
“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history,”The grand jury had been weighing evidence that Trump violated campaign finance laws and falsified business records.“Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to ‘Get Trump,’ but now they’ve done the unthinkable — indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant Election Interference,” the ex-President added.
Bragg was spotted leaving his office in Lower Manhattan at around 7 p.m. Thursday night and getting into black SUV before driving off with an escort of two police cars with lights and sirens. Police officers gather outside Manhattan Criminal Court after former U.S. President Donald Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.In anticipation of protests and reaction to the indictments, increased NYPD presence was seen across Manhattan.NYPD officers outside the Manhattan Criminal Court office are seen convening after Trump was indicted.
The Manhattan DA’s office then launched its probe into the Republican, with the case gaining momentum in recent months. Cohen paid Daniels personally, but was reimbursed by the Trump Organization under the guise of legal expenses — leading federal prosecutors to charge the money had been falsely accounted for.
Prosecutors have asked grand jury witnesses about the $150,000 “catch-and-kill” payment made to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in 2016 to keep her quiet about her claims she had a 10-month affair with the former president in 2006. The DA denied lawmakers’ request that he hand over documents and testify about what they called an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”
Trump in mid-March was invited by Bragg’s office to testify before the grand jury. His attorney, Joseph Tacopina, at the time waved off the invitation as “much ado about nothing,” saying he didn’t believe the Democratic DA had a case.
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