Donald Trump

A grand jury has voted to indict him after investigating a $130,000 pay-out to Stormy Daniels in an attempt to buy her silence over an alleged affair. Mr Trump, ...

He was acquitted by the Senate both times. In a statement, Mr Trump lashed out at the Manhattan district attorney. Mr Bragg is a registered Democrat. Cohen was jailed from 2018-20 on multiple charges. Cohen has said in court that he made the $130,000 settlement "in co-ordination with and at the direction of" the former president. Mr Trump has repeatedly slammed the investigation in his hometown of New York as a political "witch hunt" led by his opponents.

Ex-president denies affair with Stormy Daniels but has admitted directing Michael Cohen to pay Daniels $130000.

Tacopina also said the payments to Cohen were simply “legal fees”. Earlier this month, Cohen testified before the grand jury in the Manhattan hush money case. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican speaker of the House, accused Bragg of having “irreparably damaged our country”. “The American people will not tolerate this injustice, and the House of Representatives will hold Alvin Bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account,” McCarthy His legal team is expected to vigorously fight the charges, and a timeline for a potential trial remains unclear. “Our movement, and our party – united and strong – will first defeat Alvin Bragg, and then we will defeat Joe Biden.” “I believe this witch hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden,” Trump said. “Guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected.” [called](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/06/trump-porn-star-stormy-daniels-payment-zombie-case-pomerantz-book) the payment a “zombie case” which would not die. [denies](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607943366/giuliani-says-trump-did-know-about-stormy-daniels-payment) the affair but has [admitted](https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607943366/giuliani-says-trump-did-know-about-stormy-daniels-payment) directing his then lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, to pay Daniels $130,000 for her silence. [reportedly facing ](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/donald-trump-indictment/index.html)30 counts of business fraud, attacked [Bragg](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/30/who-is-alvin-bragg-donald-trump-indictment), and Democrats in a statement released shortly after the news broke, claiming the indictment amounted to “political persecution”. [New York](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york) Times and CNN, where he will enter a plea on the charges.

Donald Trump has reacted with fury after a New York grand jury voted to indict the former US president.

Mr Trump has long denied doing anything wrong, and in recent social media posts he dismissed the New York investigation as a “witch hunt” motivated by political bias. The two things I wish to say at this time is that accountability matters and I stand by my testimony and the evidence I have provided.” Mr Trump pressured election officials to declare him the state’s winner, despite his defeat to Mr Biden there. “Now he wouldn’t want to be indicted, clearly, he’d prefer not to be indicted. I mean, he really believes that he’s got the capacity to set his own rules. “He announced that he would be arrested last Tuesday, he announced it, right … However, I do take solace in validating the adage that no one is above the law; not even a former president. Prosecutors allege Mr Trump and Mr Cohen conspired to cover up the true purpose of these payments, disguising them as routine legal expenses. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the Radical Left Democrats — the enemy of the hardworking men and women of this Country — have been engaged in a Witch-Hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement. Daniels says she had a sexual encounter with Mr Trump in 2006, the year after he married his third wife Melania. The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades, including spying on my campaign, but weaponising our justice system to punish a political opponent, who just so happens to be a President of the United States and by far the leading Republican candidate for President, has never happened before. Mr Trump will be the first former president ever to face criminal charges.

The decision by the Manhattan District Attorney to charge former US president Donald Trump for hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, ...

The investigation focuses in part on a phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, on January 2, 2021. About 100 documents were marked classified; some were designated top secret, the highest level of classification. James is a Democrat. Both investigations are being overseen by Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor and political independent. A special House of Representatives committee investigating the deadly January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol urged the Justice Department to charge Trump with corruption of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement and inciting or aiding an insurrection. A prosecutor in the state of Georgia is investigating Trump's alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in that state.