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Grand Jury Votes to Indict Donald Trump in New York: Live Updates
Mr. Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case is focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign.



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March 30, 2023, 5:26 p.m. ET5 minutes ago
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Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich and William K. Rashbaum

The unprecedented case against Trump will have wide-ranging implications.
A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges.

The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now.

Mr. Trump has for decades avoided criminal charges despite persistent scrutiny and repeated investigations, creating an aura of legal invincibility that the vote to indict now threatens to puncture.

His actions surrounding his 2020 electoral defeat are now the focus of a separate federal investigation, and a Georgia prosecutor is in the final stages of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to reverse the election results in that state.

But unlike the investigations that arose from his time in the White House, this case is built around a tawdry episode that predates Mr. Trump’s presidency. The reality star turned presidential candidate who shocked the political establishment by winning the White House now faces a reckoning for a hush money payment that buried a sex scandal in the final days of the 2016 campaign.

Mr. Trump has consistently denied all wrongdoing and attacked Mr. Bragg, a Democrat, accusing him of leading a politically motivated prosecution. He has also denied any affair with the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who had been looking to sell her story of a tryst with Mr. Trump during the campaign.

Here’s what else you need to know:

Mr. Bragg and his lawyers will likely attempt to negotiate Mr. Trump’s surrender. If he agrees, it will raise the prospect of a former president, with the Secret Service in tow, being photographed and fingerprinted in the bowels of a New York State courthouse.

The prosecution’s star witness is Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer who paid the $130,000 to keep Ms. Daniels quiet. Mr. Cohen has said that Mr. Trump directed him to buy Ms. Daniels’s silence, and that Mr. Trump and his family business, the Trump Organization, helped cover the whole thing up. The company’s internal records falsely identified the reimbursements as legal expenses, which helped conceal the purpose of the payments.

Although the specific charges remain unknown, Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors have zeroed in on that hush money payment and the false records created by Mr. Trump’s company. A conviction is not a sure thing: An attempt to combine a charge relating to the false records with an election violation relating to the payment to Ms. Daniels would be based on a legal theory that has yet to be evaluated by judges, raising the possibility that a court could throw out or limit the charges.

The vote to indict, the product of a nearly five-year investigation, kicks off a new and volatile phase in Mr. Trump’s post-presidential life as he makes a third run for the White House. And it could throw the race for the Republican nomination — which he leads in most polls — into uncharted territory.

Mr. Bragg is the first prosecutor to lead an indictment of Mr. Trump. He is now likely to become a national figure enduring a harsh political spotlight.


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I think you've got the title wrong. Trump himself that he been indicated, not indicted.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:58 pm

For real though. They've done this several times on important things and the anxiousness to get details makes it so their hand is shown earlier than it needs to be. I get it of course. But the reporting on it has rarely been something that does anything but show their hand, if the race for early details regularly produced something more critical, then it would be different.

Yahoo is reporting 34 Felonies in the indictment. As of now no one else has the story.

ti-amie wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:43 am Yahoo is reporting 34 Felonies in the indictment. As of now no one else has the story.

Someone will turn that into a story to try and deflect from him, like they did with Roe v Wade, started making it about the leak.

Juan Merchan, of COLOMBIAN lineage, must know a bit or two about keeping trials straight and narrow.
It is not as if Colombian judges here do not know how to handle a trial of very dangerous criminals. So, yes. Keep any visuals out of the court.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 4:22 pm Juan Merchan, of COLOMBIAN lineage, must know a bit or two about keeping trials straight and narrow.
It is not as if Colombian judges here do not know how to handle a trial of very dangerous criminals. So, yes. Keep any visuals out of the court.

I saw a picture of Judge Merchan last week. I don't think he plays or likes to be played with in his court room.

The internet remains undefeated