Charged in New York, Donald Trump announced that he was going to Manhattan to appear in court. The former US president is indicted in a case linked to a payment of 130,000 dollars made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
This is a historic first for the United States: a former American president will be presented to a judge. Donald Trump is due to leave Florida on Monday April 3 to join New York, where he is supposed to appear the next day in criminal justice after being charged in connection with a payment to a porn star. The billionaire announced on his Truth social network that he would leave his residence in Florida to appear in court on his own after hinting that he could refuse to move.
“I’ll be leaving Mar-a-Lago on Monday at noon, heading to Trump Tower in New York. Tuesday morning, believe it or not, I’ll be going to the courthouse. America wasn’t meant to be like this.” , communicated Donald Trump.
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The tycoon must appear in court in Manhattan a priori in the afternoon of Tuesday, April 4, to be formally served with the charges against him. These have not yet been made public. The same day, at 8:15 p.m. local time, he planned to speak, but from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida announced his services.
“It’s never happened before”
The way in which his appearance will take place is on everyone’s lips in political and media circles. Usually, the ritual is well established. The defendants give their name, age, profession, submit to fingerprinting and have their photo taken (the famous “mugshot”). This time, the fact that it is a former head of state raises unknowns. “This has never happened before. The Secret Service has never been involved in such a high-level reading of the indictment,” said one of Trump’s lawyers, Joe Tacopina, in reference to the service responsible for protecting high-ranking American personalities.
