Donald Trump “created false expectations” about his “arrest,” Manhattan prosecutor accuses
The series continues. Announcement this weekend He will be charged and arrested Three days after a New York judge, Donald Trump “created false expectations” political and media, Thursday charged the Manhattan Attorney General, who is investigating the former president of the United States. According to US media, the grand jury responsible for deciding whether there is a case to indict Donald Trump did not meet on Thursday. This means that the resolution It won’t happen until MondayThe wait may continue if one or more witnesses are heard.
The 76-year-old Republican billionaire, who dreams of a “return” to the White House in November 2024, must be held accountable to New York State Judge, Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg, In the event of payment of $130,000Before his presidential victory in November 2016, to Movie X actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he was going to have an affair.
“Political Lawsuits”
On Saturday morning, Donald Trump caused a stir when he wrote on his social network Truth Social that he would be “arrested” the following Tuesday on a criminal charge by the Prague Attorney General. But nothing has happened since then. Even if New York – its police, its justice and its press – was suspended all week from the virtual appearance, the indictment, and even the brief “arrest” of the 45th President of the United States. It is unprecedented in the United States.
Attorney General Bragg, an elected Democrat who has been at the helm of Manhattan prosecutors since 2022 and inherited the Trump/Stormy Daniels case, has remained silent since Saturday. In a letter dated Thursday, addressed to three Republican lawmakers and immediately made public, the attorney general’s office complains about Mr. Trump’s message Saturday on Truth Social and about a letter these elected officials sent to the attorney general on Monday, to subpoena him to testify before. Congressional Committee.
In this letter consulted by AFP, these parliamentarians from the House of Representatives in Washington accuse Attorney General Bragg, a left-ranked judge, of carrying out “politically motivated prosecutions.”
“Unprecedented work”
“Your letter is an unprecedented intrusion into an ongoing domestic investigation,” replied Leslie Dubik, Alvin Bragg’s secretary. And “the letter came only after Donald Trump created the false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and after his lawyers apparently pressed for intervention.” “No fact provides a legitimate basis for a congressional investigation,” the Manhattan attorney general’s office states in this Thursday letter.
New York justice has again delayed, perhaps until next week, the potential criminal indictment against Donald Trump, which must be voted on by a grand jury, a panel of citizens with broad legal powers, according to media reports. The prosecutor.
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