Looks like a grand jury in New York has voted to indict Donald Trump over his role in hush money payments to porn star, Stormy Daniels.
The grand jury returned the indictment of Trump after a vote on Thursday, the people said, marking the first time a former president has faced criminal charges. The indictment, sought by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, isn’t public. A spokesman for Mr. Trump and a spokeswoman for Mr. Bragg didn’t immediately comment on the breaking news.
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has officially been INDICTED by a Manhattan grand jury on criminal charges relating to his illegal hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
Trump is the FIRST president in U.S. history to be indicted. He’ll soon be booked, fingerprinted and have his… pic.twitter.com/ZEyMDNeN0u
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) March 30, 2023
As we previously reported, Stormy Daniels is an adult film actress who claimed to have had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, which Trump has denied. In 2018, just a few weeks before the presidential election, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, had arranged a payment of $130,000 to Daniels in exchange for her signing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that prevented her from discussing the alleged affair publicly.
Daniels later filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the NDA, claiming that it was invalid because Trump himself had never signed it. The lawsuit also alleged that Cohen had defamed her by insinuating that she had lied about the affair.
The scandal surrounding the alleged affair and the hush money payment made headlines and raised questions about potential campaign finance violations, as the payment was made just weeks before the election. Cohen ultimately pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations related to the payment, stating that he had acted at the direction of Trump.
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Now this isn’t the first time we have seen Trump in hot water. During his time in office, Trump was impeached twice by the House of Representatives, but was acquitted both times by the Senate. In 2018, Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations related to payments made to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. Cohen implicated Trump in the scheme, but Trump denied any wrongdoing.
In February 2021, the Supreme Court declined to block the release of Trump’s tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which had been seeking them as part of an investigation into possible financial crimes.
#Socialites how do you think this will play out for Trump?