Suspended in the United States and Donald Trump, as he likes, in the lead.
"Trump lives in a state of constant self-excitement. If it's not in the center, it's dead." This is what David Remnick wrote in The New Yorker, waiting for the former president's prediction that this was the day of his "arrest" for allegedly bribing a porn actress to be fulfilled.
He insisted that, in the face of impending criminal charges by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, people should take to the streets, echoing the call to take the Capitol. This memory means that, as the hours pass, the security in New York and in Washington is being strengthened more and more.
On the supposed D-Day there were shows of support in Mar-a-Lago (Florida), where Trump lives, and four cats in lower Manhattan. On the other hand, if you ask residents of New York, a city non grata for him, there are many who answer that they not only expect the accusation but that he ends up in prison.
But there are also lawyers and Democratic officials who express doubts about the legal course of the so-called Zombie case, buried until Bragg joined the Prosecutor's Office in 2022.
Above all, progressive voices are heard who regret that, in the face of longer-term affairs (the investigations into the insurrection of January 6, 2021, the pressure to find votes in Georgia, the secret papers, the frauds of his businesses...), the case of Stormy Daniels is the starting one, because they see him as the weakest.
The Manhattan prosecutor has not given concrete hints about the timetable or whether he would actually indict Trump. However, from the evidence presented to the grand jury, everything suggested that Bragg, most hated by Trump and his Republican supporters, would make history and be the first to indict a former president.
Analysts believe the accuser will argue that Trump created false records to pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016, in the middle of the election campaign, after she threatened him to spread the word 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 prison. Another thing is if he made the forgery to commit or hide another crime, punishable by up to four years.
The investigation began with Michael Cohen, Trump's attorney and facilitator, who obtained a mortgage-backed loan to pay off the hush money. He was prosecuted on, among other charges, illegal campaign donations, and served three years in prison. In the summary it is read that Cohen, today a prosecution witness, acted under the direction of "individual 1", which was the way to call Trump. Already in the White House, he reimbursed the $130,000 to his former 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 the case to focus on possible fraud in the family business."
