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donald trump created a “false expectation” about his impending arrestthe Manhattan prosecutor who is investigating the former president for paying $ 130,000 to a porn actress said Thursday, while tensions grow over a possible indictment.
In a letter sent to three Republican congressmen who wrote to him Monday asking him to testify before Congress in this case, the office of Alvin Bragg responded this Thursday with another letter.
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In the letter, the Republicans -among them the president of the Justice Commission, Jim Jordan- Bragg, a Democrat, was charged with “political persecution” after Trump said Saturday that he would be detained Tuesday.
“Your letter… is an unprecedented investigation into a pending local lawsuit.”wrote Leslie Dubeck, general counsel of Bragg’s office, this Thursday.
“The letter came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be detained. (…) and their lawyers urged them to intervene. Neither fact constitutes a legitimate basis for the congressional investigation.”, he added.
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Trump made the announcement on his platform TruthSocialunleashing a media frenzy, and called his supporters to “mass” protests, putting on high alert the New York police who erected barricades in front of Bragg’s office in lower Manhattan and Trump Tower.
But it is not yet known when the indictment will take place, if at all.
The grand jury, the one in charge of voting if Trump is charged, was not scheduled to meet this Thursday, so it is not expected that there will be a decision before next week.
The 76-year-old Republican who aspires to reach the White House again in the 2024 elections, He could become the first ex-president to be indicted by justice.
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The Bragg prosecutor’s office investigates the payment of $ 130,000 to the porn actress stormy daniels In the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, to buy their silence about a relationship they would have had 10 years earlier, something that the tycoon has always denied.
Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohenwho testified before the grand jury, said he made the payment on behalf of his then-boss and later reimbursed him.
But if the payment was not duly accredited, could result in misdemeanor accounting falsificationand could mean the violation of the electoral campaign financing law, which can lead to 4 years in prison, according to experts.
For the tycoon, it is a “witch hunt”.
Source: Elcomercio
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