New York District Attorney, Alvin Bragghe said Tuesday at a press conference that “serious criminal conduct” will not be normalized after the former president of the United States, Donald Trumphas been declared not guilty of a total of 34 criminal charges for the case of alleged bribery of the porn actress Stephanie Cliffordknown as Stormy Daniels.
“These are crimes in the state of New York. Regardless of who you are, you cannot normalize serious criminal conduct,” he said. Alvin Bragg before remembering that “no one is above the law”. In addition, he added that, by virtue of the charges, the former president allegedly violated New York state law.
Likewise, Bragg has indicated that the participants in the alleged “scheme” in which he participated Michael CohenTrump’s former lawyer, knew that the payments to about three people who had negative information about Trump, including the porn actress, were “illegal.”
Impeachment against Donald Trump
As is known, the judge of Colombian origin Juan Merchan he blamed Donald Trump of 34 counts of “falsification of business records in the first degree” for the payment of $130,000 to the porn star Stormy Daniels in the final stretch of the 2016 electoral campaign to silence an alleged extramarital relationship that occurred ten years earlier and that he has always denied.
“Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that concealed harmful information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,” the prosecutor said. Alvin Bragg it’s a statement.
Almost an hour after his historic appearance before the judge, the criminal court released Trump without control, who could have to sit on the bench as of January 2024, becoming the first former president to face a trial with unforeseeable consequences. for his presidential bids in November next year.
The tycoon, in turn, has also announced that he will speak to the press.
Defending
“The indictment itself is a boilerplate text,” said one of his lawyers, Todd Blanche, adding that it is a “sad” accusation that he vows to fight.
His then lawyer Michael Cohen was in charge of making the payment and the tycoon reimbursed him the fractional sum, allegedly passing it off as professional fees.
Sitting among his lawyers, Trump looked grim and concerned, according to a photo taken inside the courtroom, after undergoing the usual protocol: fingerprinting and mug shots.
Both the former president and his lawyers have insisted on the nonsense of the case. Trump does not stop shouting that it is a “witch hunt”.
(With information from AFP and Europa Press)
