Court, meetings, court: Donald Trump returns on Thursday to sit in a courtroom in New York, where his trial with extraordinary promises for hidden payments to a porn actress will be pending for several weeks another.
The weekly break in hearings this Wednesday boosted the campaign for the Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election, who was able to overcome his rival Joe Biden in two meetings in the key states of Wisconsin and Michigan.
But a return to the test box on Thursday promises to be dangerous. Before the debates begin, the judge Juan Merchan examines from 9:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. GMT) a new explosion of unprecedented statements from the stormy Republican billionaire, which prosecutors deny as violations of the ban, set by the judge, on attacking jurors or witnesses.
If Donald Trump, 77, remained silent for hours at the hearings, the question of his interventions outside the court or on social networks has increased.
On Tuesday, the judge sentenced him for contempt to the maximum fine, or $9,000, for nine publications in which he attacked the prosecution’s main witness, his former lawyer turned sworn enemy Michael Cohen, or the jurors, including that it means they would not be impartial. to him.
Above all, the magistrate threatened the former President of the United States with total imprisonment if the crime was committed again, with the law providing for up to 30 days in prison.
The invectives investigated on Thursday were identified by prosecutors before this threat. Among them, an interview where Donald Trump describes the jurors as “95% Democrats”. The judge is not obliged to rule immediately.
– Behind the scenes of the campaign –
Three years after leaving the White House in turmoil, and after surviving two impeachment cases, Donald Trump is entering the campaign charged in four separate cases, bringing the in front of the federal courts in Washington for his illegal efforts to overturn the presidential results. election won by Joe Biden in 2020.
But because of appeals and procedural questions, the current trial in New York, on a smaller scale, may be the only one tried before the Nov. 5 election.
Donald Trump is nevertheless at risk of the first criminal conviction of an American vice president and in theory a prison sentence, a situation that would take the campaign into the unknown.
The former President of the United States has been charged with 34 falsifications of accounting documents that allegedly concealed payments to cover up a possible domestic sex scandal. the 2016 presidential campaign, which Hillary Clinton narrowly won.
Former porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid a sum of $130,000 to buy her silence about the sexual relationship she said she had in 2006, when he was married about early A relationship that Donald Trump denies.
Since the start of the trial, witnesses have emerged behind the scenes of the victorious 2016 campaign, where colorful mediators, such as the former head of an American tabloid, negotiated a ban on sensational stories that could be splashing Donald Trump, not revealing them in the end and protecting him from any scandal.
But the expected actors, such as Donald Trump’s damned old soul, Michael Cohen, who directly paid Stormy Daniels, have not yet testified before the jurors.
The trial, which is in its third week, is expected to last between six and eight.
2024-05-02 09:18:18
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