Trump on criminal charges to be handcuffed in court today

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Trump on criminal charges to be handcuffed in court today

Former US President Donald Trump flew his private jet from Florida to New York yesterday, where he is scheduled to stand trial today on 34-count felony charges. Trump became the first politician in stories United States, who led the country, who can be convicted on criminal charges. In total, four charges were brought against the ex-president, including on the facts of alleged tax evasion and fraud during the previous presidential election campaign.

The most resonant was the case of Trump's connection with porn actress Stormy Daniels (real name - Stephanie Cliffords), to whom, in order to hide the fact of their relationship, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, he paid 2016 thousand dollars for silence shortly before the presidential election in 130. Moreover, money from the pre-election fund was used, Bragg believes. The former head of the White House himself denies all the accusations and has repeatedly stated that they are fabricated in order to prevent him from returning to the Oval Office following the results of the current election race.



The online edition of Yahoo News, citing its sources, reports that the day before, the district attorney reclassified all charges against Trump to category "E", representing the lowest level of crimes in the criminal code of the state of New York. For this class of crimes, the defendant faces up to four years in prison. However, such a scenario is unlikely, the newspaper writes.

Nobody goes to jail for that, breaking the law the first time

said an informant at the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Trump's lawyer Joe Takopina called all the charges against the ex-president fabricated by his political opponents in order to prevent Trump from returning to the White House. According to him, the result will be the opposite. Criminal prosecution will only strengthen the rating of the former head of state and help him win next year's elections. Recent opinion polls only confirm this trend.

In the case of most people, when they are prosecuted or charged, their campaign ends. They disappear. Their careers are over, but Donald Trump is somehow getting stronger

- said Takopin on the eve of the appearance of his client in the District Court of Manhattan.

According to the lawyer, the case against the politician would never have been initiated if Trump had not announced his intention to participate in the presidential election in 2024.

Experts believe that even if the court finds Trump guilty, his defense will appeal these decisions to higher authorities until it reaches the Supreme Court. Given the bureaucratic delays, this process can drag on for several years and in no way prevent the former head of the White House from competing for the presidency. The very fact of criminal prosecution, according to the US Constitution, does not serve as an obstacle to participation in the presidential race.

Trump is expected to appear in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan at 14:15 pm local time (21:15 Moscow time). By law, the defendant must be handcuffed for at least a short time, but Trump is likely to avoid this due to the security measures applied to the former head of state. The refusal to plead guilty means that the former American president will not make a deal with the investigation in order to mitigate the punishment. After the charges are filed, Trump will be released until the next court session, he will not have to pay bail.
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  1. +2
    April 4 2023 12: 32
    "Free Angela De .." !!!. Or maybe, well, him. This Trump? From changing the places of terms ...
    1. +17
      April 4 2023 12: 37
      hope is glimmering .... on the eve of the US elections, Trump supporters and Trump opponents will start shooting at each other ... maybe I'm a little cruel towards ordinary Americans, but the situation in the world requires their Chernobyl and their civil war ...
      Thanks for understanding..
      1. AAK
        +2
        April 4 2023 12: 50
        Absolutely true, there is no plan for a new Roosevelt among the American political elite, so for us there is no difference in who is not, but internal showdowns in the states will only benefit us, and it will just be good if the rednecks there start to nightmare all sorts of demosyatin and "bro" ...
      2. 0
        April 4 2023 12: 55
        Quote: Smoker
        hope is glimmering .... on the eve of the US elections, Trump supporters and Trump opponents will start shooting at each other ...
        After Trump frankly leaked his supporters, it is unlikely that anyone will now shoot for him
      3. +1
        April 4 2023 13: 10
        No, it won’t go further than massacre. If only to cause a mass psychosis. But there the cops usually don’t stand on ceremony, they bring down even for preventive purposes
        1. 0
          April 4 2023 14: 01
          Quote from: dmi.pris1
          No, it won’t go further than massacre. If only to cause a mass psychosis. But there the cops usually don’t stand on ceremony, they bring down even for preventive purposes

          There are few real violent ones, and there are no leaders!
        2. 0
          April 4 2023 16: 32
          It used to be. Now they kneel before the criminals and ask for forgiveness. Especially if they are black.
      4. 0
        April 4 2023 22: 31
        We understand, we wait, we hope and we believe)))
    2. 0
      April 4 2023 13: 08
      Criminal prosecution will only strengthen the rating
      Trump is a showman and extra advertising does not hurt!
  2. +4
    April 4 2023 12: 39
    Trump's lawyers have reached a key agreement, no one will handcuff Trump. There was still not enough to make a martyr out of him. Trump is a showman with experience, he flew to court on his plane - handsome. USA front-page media. A drug addict in a deep basement.
    1. 0
      April 4 2023 14: 38
      Of course, Trump is more interesting. Assertive, obditel, smart, educated. Who is Zelya? A typical semi-Jew, from a Ukrainian provincial town. He tries to be smart, but as my grandmother used to say, "sElo is sElo" it cannot be cured.
  3. 0
    April 4 2023 12: 39
    Has become objectionable now, due to future elections wassat ... now they are hanging all kinds of heresy and dragging out the process .... until the elections! It won't get easier for us Yes .... let, like the scorpions in the bank "solve their own affairs" THEY are so rotten that "there is no faith" from the word at all !!!
  4. +2
    April 4 2023 12: 42
    Trump's lawyer Joe Takopina says all charges against the ex-president are fabricated by his political opponents
    But for them it is not 1937, and not political repression .. laughing
  5. 0
    April 4 2023 12: 45
    Sorry for the question, personal income tax was supposed to be withheld by Trump or the "girlfriend" had to pay it on her own .... Some misunderstandings .....
  6. +3
    April 4 2023 12: 49
    Trump should be handcuffed
    Shackles on the hands and do not forget about the legs
    And on the plantation, not even thinking about elections. You are a heavy share of politics in the United States, oh heavy.
    1. +1
      April 4 2023 12: 55
      Will there be public corporal punishment? How many whips?
    2. 0
      April 4 2023 13: 13
      Actually, it’s interesting. Was there something similar in relation to the presidents? Well, they investigated (the saxophonist, last time), they shot (from Reagan and earlier) .. Here, with shackles, I don’t remember ..
  7. 0
    April 4 2023 12: 55
    Ob der Präsident Trump, Biden, oder Obama heißt,
    ist vollkommen egal fur die Welt!
    Die USA sind und bleiben ein undemokratisches
    Zwei-Parteien-Regime mit zwei ultrarechten Flügeln
    in dem alleine der selbst geschaffene, vollkommen
    außer Kontrolle agierende und entartete "deep Staat"
    in Wahrheit "regiert"...!!
    Nicht umsonst muss man schon US- Milliardär sein, um überhaupt
    den eigenen Wahlkampf in den USA finanzieren zu können!
    Die Kosten alleine für den Wahlkampf von Donald Trump
    betrugen mehr als 1,2 Billionen (Milliarden) US-Dollar, die
    Kosten seiner Gegnerin nicht eingerechnet...!!

    Die einzige Hoffnung für die Welt wäre ein erneuter US-Bürgerkrieg
    in dem sich das Welt-Krebsgeschwür USA gegenseitig eliminieren
    würde...; also lasst uns dafür beten, dass es so kommt...!!!
  8. +1
    April 4 2023 13: 07
    Trump on criminal charges to be handcuffed in court today

    The peak of American democracy in the United States, for the first time in the short history of this country, the president is handcuffed. Freedom is crying!!!

  9. 0
    April 4 2023 13: 16
    Now our liberals will sing that in the citadel of democracy this is not a struggle for power, but the rule of law, that Trump is a criminal and deserves everything, and they will say about Russia that they say they will never put the former head of state in our country, but they say it’s like . But it’s interesting how Trump’s supporters will react to this arbitrariness of the authorities, or Biden cleared them all after the storming of the Capitol, and the gay Europeans, how they will worry about this, okay, I know that they don’t, but I really want to believe that they are now blazing there.
  10. +1
    April 4 2023 13: 17
    It looks like the President of the United States * will go to jail before the President of the Russian Federation! wassat
    *All persons elected President of the United States for life are referred to as "President"
  11. +1
    April 4 2023 13: 59
    Malanya will remain ownerless ... fellow
  12. 0
    April 4 2023 14: 52
    Tento fašismus, snažící se ovládnout celý západní svět se neštítí ničeho, aby se udržel u moci!! Znovu je vidět, jak velkou chybou bylo, když se fašismus po Teď je, zdá se mnohem nebezpečnější, než za Hitlera, má vše do detailů promyšlené koho podplatit a zkorumpovat, aby pracoval pro fašisty. Ovládnutí medii hraje hlavní roli. Ale Trump, zdá se, toto všechno ustojí a po vyhraných volbách bude mít šanci dát šanci Americe, aby se opět postavila na nohy.. "bohužel" už jen vlastní tvrdou prací, protože z dolaru díky kterému nezaslouženě bohatli, se stal už jen bezcenný papirek.
    1. 0
      April 4 2023 14: 53
      This fascism trying to take over the entire western world will stop at nothing to stay in power!! One can once again see how big a mistake it was that fascism could not be liquidated after the Second World War and we believed that it would gradually die out along with the remnants of the fascists. Now he seems to be much more dangerous than under Hitler, he has everything thought out in detail, whom to bribe and bribe to work for the Nazis. Media control plays an important role. But Trump, it seems, will endure all this and after winning the elections he will have a chance to give America a chance to get back on its feet.

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