“The candidate is leading the Republican Party at the moment and the former US president will be arrested on March 21. Let’s protest. Let’s take back our country,” the Guardian quoted the former’s statement. President Donald Trump on the social network Truth on the morning of March 18.
In the same statement, Trump accused the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of “corrupt practices and actions with political purposes”.
The former US president reaffirmed that he had not committed any crime, and reiterated that prosecutor Bragg’s campaign was funded by billionaire George Soros.
The charges to be announced by Mr. Bragg’s office are said to be related to the case that former President Trump paid a payment of $ 130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Daniels in 2016 said she had an affair with the US billionaire and was paid this money to keep quiet while Mr. Trump was conducting his first presidential campaign.
Earlier, a lawyer Daniels on March 15 said his client has met with prosecutors in Manhattan and is ready to testify in court.
Michael Cohen, a former attorney for Trump, admitted in 2018 to campaign finance violations, stemming from money he paid Daniels on behalf of the former US president. Trump’s former lawyer was sentenced to three years in prison.
