According to the media, a decision on a possible indictment will be made next week at the earliest. The investigation once morest Trump is regarding a hush money payment to the porn actress Stephanie Clifford.
Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg has investigated the conduct of ex-US President Donald Trump criticized in the investigation into a hush money payment to a porn actress. Trump fueled “false expectations” of an impending arrest over the weekend, Bragg’s office wrote in a letter to three Republican congressmen on Thursday.
Trump had written on his online platform Truth Social on Saturday that he should be arrested on Tuesday. Previously, there were increasing signs of charges once morest the 76-year-old Republican in the affair of a hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels. However, there are still no charges once morest Trump been raised.
According to media reports, a decision should not be made until next week at the earliest. The responsible grand jury, a lay body responsible for indictments, therefore did not want to deal with the case on Thursday Trump deal with it, but once more next Monday at the earliest.
Republican Representatives Jim Jordan, James Comer, and Bryan Steil had passed following Bragg Trumps In a Truth Social statement over the weekend, he was accused of an “unprecedented abuse” of his official powers and asked him to testify and provide documents to Congress regarding his investigation.
Prosecutors reject allegations
The Manhattan Attorney’s Office rejected this in a letter to the three MPs on Thursday. Referring to the Republican letter sent Monday, the agency wrote: “The letter came following Donald Trump created the false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and following his lawyers reportedly urged you to take action. None of these facts constitute a legitimate basis for a congressional investigation.”
In the investigation once morest Trump It is regarding a hush money payment of 130,000 dollars (around 120,000 euros) to the porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known under the name Stormy Daniels. The payment before the 2016 presidential election was apparently intended to prevent the porn star, who claims to have had a sex affair in 2006 with Trump would go public, which might have hurt the presidential candidate.
The question is whether the payment was booked illegally and to what extent it violated campaign finance laws. Trump has denied both an affair with Stormy Daniels and any wrongdoing in connection with the hush money payment. The right-wing populist, who wants to retake the White House in 2024, repeatedly describes the investigations and other allegations as a politically motivated “witch hunt”.
(APA/AFP)
