Former US President Donald Trump was indicted on more than 30 charges

Lan Ha (According to CNN)• April 2, 2023 08:14

(Baonghean.vn) - CNN, citing a well-informed source, said that former US President Donald Trump was indicted on more than 30 counts of business fraud in the hush money case against porn star Stormy Daniels. Mr. Trump will arrive in New York on April 3 to be formally indicted.

Former US President Donald Trump. Photo: AP

Speaking on NBC News, Mr. Joe Tacopina, Mr. Trump’s lawyer, announced that his client “definitely” will voluntarily go to New York to present himself to the authorities and “will not barricade himself at Mar-a-Lago” – his private home in Palm Beach, Florida, but will not plead guilty and “will not be handcuffed.” Former President Trump will fight vigorously to dismiss the indictment.

For years, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been investigating Trump's alleged involvement in paying Daniels $130,000 in the final days of the 2016 campaign to keep her from reporting an affair with him in 2006, when he was married, even though Trump denied the affair. The payment to Daniels was legal, but Trump's company allegedly recorded the money as legal expenses. In New York, falsifying business records is illegal. Trump, meanwhile, has denied any wrongdoing.

For his part, on March 31, former President Trump continued to call this prosecution a "witch hunt" and attacked Mr. Bragg on the social network Truth Social.

Earlier, on the afternoon of March 30, shortly after the Manhattan grand jury decided to indict, Mr. Trump issued a statement calling this case “political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history.” In addition, Mr. Trump also called a series of important allies in Congress to seek support, including members of the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives as well as lawmakers on committees seeking to investigate Attorney General Bragg./.