Suspense in the United States and Donald Trump, as he likes, as the protagonist.
“Trump lives in a state of constant self-arousal. If he is not in the center, he is dead ”. This was written by David Remnick in The New Yorker, waiting for the former president's prediction that this was the day of his "arrest" for the alleged bribery of a porn actress to come true yesterday.
He insisted that, in the face of the imminent criminal indictment by Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, people had to take to the streets, in an echo of the incitement to take the Capitol. This memory means that, as the hours go by, security in New York and Washington is increasingly reinforced.
On the alleged D-Day there were shows of support in Mar-a-Lago (Florida), where Trump resides, and four cats in lower Manhattan. On the other hand, if residents of New York are asked, a city that is not pleasant for him, there are many who answer that they not only expect the accusation but also that he ends up in prison.
But there are also jurists and Democratic officials who express doubts about the legal course of the so-called Zombie case, buried until Bragg agreed to the Prosecutor's Office in 2022.
Above all, progressive voices are heard lamenting that, in the face of issues with a longer history (investigations into the insurrection of January 6, 2021, due to the pressure to find votes in Georgia, due to secret papers, due to business fraud. ..), the case of Stormy Daniels is the starting one, because she looks the weakest.
The Manhattan prosecutor has given no concrete clues about the schedule or whether he would actually charge Trump. However, from the evidence presented before the grand jury, everything suggested that Bragg, the one most hated by Trump and his Republican supporters, was going to make history by being the first to indict a former president.
Analysts think the accuser will argue that Trump created false records to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016, on the campaign trail, after she threatened to publicize that they had a sexual relationship a decade earlier. Trump, in his line, has always denied it. The sentence would be less than a year in jail. Another thing is if he made that forgery to commit or hide another crime, punishable by up to four years.
The investigation began with Michael Cohen, a lawyer and Trump supporter, who obtained a home equity loan to pay off the hush money. He was indicted for, among other charges, illegal campaign donations, and he served three years in prison. In the summary it is read that Cohen, today a witness for the prosecution, acted under the direction of "individual 1", which was the way of calling Trump. Once in the White House, he reimbursed the $130,000 to his ex-lawyer.
Although it is assumed that the coordinator had committed the same crime, the Prosecutor's Office at that time did not see it appropriate to investigate a president. And then they filed it away to focus on possible fraud in the family business.”
