The soap opera continues. By announcing this weekend that he would be charged and arrested three days later by New York justice, Donald Trump “created a false expectation” political and media, accused Thursday the Manhattan prosecutor, who is investigating the ex-president of the United States. According to American media, the grand jury responsible for deciding whether there is a case to indict Donald Trump did not meet on Thursday. This means that a decision will not be made until Monday, and the wait could last if one or more additional witnesses are heard.
The 76-year-old Republican billionaire, who dreams of “returning” to the White House in November 2024, must answer before the justice of the State of New York, and his Manhattan attorney Alvin Bragg, for a case of payment of 130,000 dollars , just before his presidential victory in November 2016, to an X-film actress, Stormy Daniels, with whom he would have had an affair.
“Politically motivated lawsuits”
On Saturday morning, Donald Trump pulled off a bang by writing on his Truth Social social network that he was going to be “arrested” the following Tuesday on a criminal charge by prosecutor Bragg. But nothing has happened since. Even if all week, New York – its police, its justice and the press – was suspended from the hypothetical appearance, indictment and even brief “arrest” of the 45th President of the United States. Which would be unprecedented in the United States.
Prosecutor Bragg, an elected Democrat at the head of the Manhattan prosecution since 2022 and who inherited the Trump / Stormy Daniels case, has remained silent since Saturday. In a letter dated Thursday, addressed to three Republican parliamentarians and immediately made public, the prosecutor’s office complains of Mr. Trump’s message on Saturday on Truth Social and of a letter that these elected officials sent to the prosecutor on Monday, summoning him to testify before a congressional committee.
These parliamentarians from the House of Representatives in Washington accuse in this letter consulted by AFP the prosecutor Bragg, a magistrate classified on the left, of carrying out “politically motivated prosecutions”.
“Unprecedented action”
“Your letter,” responded Leslie Dubeck, Alvin Bragg’s corporate secretary, “is an unprecedented intervention in an ongoing local investigation.” And “the letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and after his lawyers apparently pressured you to intervene.” “No fact offers a legitimate basis for a congressional investigation”, decides the Manhattan prosecutor’s office in this Thursday letter.
New York justice has again postponed, possibly until next week, the possible criminal indictment of Donald Trump, which must be voted on by a grand jury, a panel of citizens with broad powers of attorney, according to media reports. investigation and who works with the prosecutor.