Donald Trump says he is facing arrest over $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
18.03.2023 - 17:33
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Donald Trump claims he is facing arrest over payments towards porn actress Stormy Daniels to hush her over an alleged sexual relationship. Writing on his website, the ex-president declared he will be arrested on Tuesday.
According to the Mirror, prosecutors in New York are making security preparations for the possibility that Trump could be indicted in the coming weeks and appear in a Manhattan courtroom.
Trump's post reads: "Now illegal leaks from a corrupt & highly political Manhattan district attorneys office, which has allowed new records to be set in violent crime & whose leader is funded by George Soros, indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven, & based on an old & fully debunked (by numerous other prosecutors!) fairytale, the far & away leading republican candidate & former president of the united states of America, will be arrested on Tuesday of next week. Protest, take our nation back!"
There has been no public announcement of any timeframe for the grand jury's secret work, including any potential vote on whether to indict the ex-president. The law enforcement officials said authorities are just preparing in case of an indictment and described the conversations as preliminary and are considering security, planning and the practicalities of a potential court appearance by a former president.
Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, said that if Trump is indicted, “we will follow the normal procedures.” The grand jury has been hearing from witnesses including former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who says he orchestrated payments in 2016 to two women to silence them about sexual encounters they said they had with Trump a decade earlier.
Trump denies the encounters occurred, says he did nothing wrong and has cast the