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On Saturday, the former president of the United States. donald trumpsurprised to ensure that will be arrested on tuesday and called on his followers to protest. The case would be related to an investigation into the payment of money to the porn star stormy daniels for his silence.
“Protest, Take Back Our Nation” wrote Trump on his social network Truth Social, without mentioning the reason for that arrest.
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Trump based his information on “illegal leaks from a law enforcement office manhattan district attorney corrupt and highly politicized organization that has allowed new records for violent crime to be set and whose leader is financed by George Soros.”
He Magnate added in his message that “the main Republican candidate and former president of USA he will be arrested on Tuesday (…) without it being possible to prove any crime and based on an old and completely disproved fairy tale ”.
research in NYwhich has lasted almost 5 years, centers on an alleged payment of $130,000 to stormy daniels in exchange for his silence during the Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
Then the Stormy Daniels Casethe consequences of a possible arrest warrant against donald trump and the other investigations he faces.
The office’s investigation Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg focuses on the payments that were made in 2016 to the porn actress stormy daniels so that he would not reveal information about an alleged affair he had with Trump a decade ago.
The payments, which totaled $130,000, were made by Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohenwho was later refunded the money.
The payment was revealed by the newspaper “The Wall Street Journal” in January 2018, but at the time Cohen and Trump refuted the information and on several occasions the former president denied having had a relationship with stormy daniels.
According to the US media, the prosecutor’s office wants to establish whether there was falsification of the company’s business records. trump organization at the time of reimbursement Cohen. And if Trump violated the campaign finance law.
If prosecutors can convince a jury that the forgery was made to hide another crime – such as an undeclared campaign gift – andThis infraction can become a felonysentenced to up to four years in prison, explained to the AFP agency John Coffee, a professor of law at Columbia University, specializing in financial and white-collar crimes.
At present, both Michael Cohen as stormy daniels collaborate with justice.
But why cohen betrayed trump and began to collaborate with justice?
Lawyer Cohen he was pressured by the judicial siege against him and ended up collaborating. In 2028, he pleaded guilty to tax and bank fraud before the federal court of Manhattanand also of violating laws on the financing of electoral campaigns.
In December 2018, Michael Cohen claimed to have acted on Trump’s orders and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Yeah Trump is detained, it would be the first time that this has happened to a former president and possible presidential candidate in the United States.
Shanlon Wu, a former federal prosecutor and current defense attorney for white-collar crimes (committed by high-ranking officials, tycoons), explained to Time magazine that defense attorneys usually receive notice when their clients are charged. “Basically, an appointment would be made to take the client to be registered and fingerprinted.”said.
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defense of Trump has said it has not received any updates from the district attorney’s office Manhattan.
If Trump If he is arrested, he would first be escorted to court, where he would be briefly placed in a holding cell. Then they would take his fingerprints and mugshot and a file would be made.
He would then be taken in handcuffs to a courtroom where the arraignment will take place.
According to Univisión, if the accusation and arrest warrant against Trump finally takes place, it is possible that due to his status as former president, his lawyers will be able to negotiate that some of these steps can take place more discreetly and out of public view.
Also it is very likely that the judge will consider that there is no flight risk and, therefore, you will be released on bail immediatelysays Univision.
What comes next? If Trump is finally indicted and prosecuted, a jury would have to be chosen for the trial and, according to a statement by former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti to Time, this could be a long and exhausting process since having been a very polarizing president, “the Most of the people in the jury group would have some opinions” about him..
In addition, a judge could issue a so-called “gag order”, which would prohibit all parties involved from speaking to the press and being exposed to any outside information.
Under US law, if Trump is accused and even convicted, he could aspire to the Presidency and be electedsays Univision.
Recently, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump said that if he is accused in the case of payments to stormy daniels, would remain in the race for the Presidency. “It will probably improve my numbers,” she asserted.
The United States Constitution says that to run for president you must be at least 35 years old and have been a resident of the country for at least 14 years. The fact of having a criminal record or not is not a requirement.
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“Some people are surprised to learn that there is no constitutional bar to a criminal running for president, but there is no such bar”he told ABC News legal analyst Kate Shaw, a professor at Yeshiva University School of Law in New York.
Although a possible imprisonment of Trump make it difficult or even impossible for him to run for the White House, that impediment would be “a practical problem, not a legal one,” Shaw added.
Source: Elcomercio
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