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| The decision to indict Donald Trump in the case of 'giving money to a porn star, the possibility of arrest in the coming days |
Former US President Donald Trump has been indicted for allegedly paying a porn star to remain silent before the 2016 presidential election.
Details of the indictment have not yet been released.
The former president is accused of allegedly paying her lawyer $130,000 a month before the election in an attempt to buy the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels regarding the affair.
Daniels claimed the two had sex in a hotel room, which Trump "vehemently denies."
In a TV interview that aired in March 2018, Daniels said she had been threatened not to talk about the affair.
A grand jury has voted to indict the former president after investigating the allegations.
His attorney, Susan Nickles, confirmed the indictment in a statement Thursday evening. He said that 'Trump has not committed any crime, he is being targeted politically and we will fight it vigorously in the court.'
Trump is the first former US president to face charges.
The former president lives in Florida and is expected to travel to New York City for his formal arraignment and first court appearance.
There is also the possibility of recording the fingerprints of the former president and taking his mug shot.
Trump is currently the clear front-runner among all the Republican nominees and possible contenders for the White House.
He is also being investigated in several other cases.
Other investigations include an investigation into his role in the January 2021 US Capitol riots, his attempts to turn his loss into a victory in the 2020 election in the state of Georgia, and how he handled classified documents after leaving office.
U.S. law does not bar a candidate from running for president or running for president based on a conviction or even a prison sentence.
However, the arrest of President Trump will definitely complicate his presidential campaign.
Meanwhile, former porn star Stormy Daniels thanked the fans on Twitter and wrote, "Thank you for all your support and love."
She wrote that 'I am receiving so many messages that I cannot reply to all of them.'
According to him, people are also requesting his autograph.
It should be noted that former President Donald Trump is being indicted for paying Stormy Daniels to remain silent. The payment was intended to keep Stormy Daniels quiet about her relationship with Trump.
Trump's payment was legal, but Trump treated the payment as a business expense, and falsifying business records is a felony in New York.
Who is Stormy Daniels?
Daniels's real name is Stephanie Clifford and she was born in 1979 in Louisiana. She entered the porn industry first as a performer, after which she also started directing and writing in the year 2004.
His pseudonym is actually derived from Storm, the daughter of Nicky Six, bassist of the music band Motley Crue, and Jack Daniels, the popular American liquor. The wine is 'very popular in South America' and Clifford chose the name because he is from South America himself.
You may remember her from movies like '40 Year Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up' and in the music video for Maroon Five's song Wake Up Call.
He considered running for the US Senate from Louisiana but decided against it because he felt no one was taking him seriously.
Daniels says she first met Donald Trump in July 2006 at a charity golf tournament. The tournament was held on a golf course near Lake Tahoe, which is located between California and Nevada.
In a 2011 interview with In Touch Weekly, published in its entirety in January 2018, Daniels says that Trump invited her to dinner and then went to his hotel room.
He said in the interview that he was lying on his couch and watching TV. He was wearing pajama pants.
Daniels claims the two had sex in that hotel room.
In a TV interview that aired in March 2018, Daniels said she had been threatened not to talk about the affair.
An article published in the Wall Street Journal in January 2018 claimed that President Trump's lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, gave Daniels $130,000 a month before the presidential election in October 2016. This election was won by President Trump. According to the article, this was done after Daniels allegedly tried to sell the story of the affair to the National Enquirer.
Damage to America's confidence
BBC's Washington Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue writes that the decision to indict Trump is not only an important moment for him and the Republican Party but a turning point in American history because it is the first time a president has been impeached. An indictment is going to be filed.
He writes that in a way, the possibility of a head of state being indicted and jailed is not surprising as it has been happening all over the world.
However, he writes that the United States considered itself to be the most isolated in this contextThis is because Washington continued to play the role of a moral and democratic beacon for the world.
That's why, according to Gary, it's not just Donald Trump's problem, but a blow to American confidence.
He writes that in 2021, we have already seen a violent mob attack on the center of democracy in America, Capitol Hill, and the country is deeply divided.
"At a time when China is asserting its diplomatic influence on the global stage and Russia is attacking Ukraine, it is clear that several challenges have arisen on different fronts to the position of the United States in the world. are dangerous.'
"Historians call the 20th century the century of America, but will they say the same for this century?"