The vote of a Manhattan grand jury to indict the Republican former president on charges related to hush money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 presidential campaign catapults the now-candidate Donald Trump into a new era of legal risk and complicates his attempts to return to the White House.
Donald Trump has become the first former U.S. president to be charged with a crime, the culmination of a political rise defined by unprecedented scandal.
He will have to contend with a criminal case while running again for the White House, taking time and attention away from the campaign trail -- though neither the case nor a conviction would preclude him from seeking or winning the presidency in 2024. "The Democrats have lied, cheated and stolen in their obsession with trying to `Get Trump,"' he said in a statement.
The efforts by many of the same players in the latter case were also the subject of a special grand jury investigation in Georgia. The panel's foreperson said the special grand jury recommended multiple criminal indictments, leaving it up to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, to decide whether to convene a regular grand jury and pursue criminal charges.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to announce a campaign and is seen as Trump's top rival for the GOP nomination, called the indictment "un-American." Former Vice President Mike Pence, also considering a challenge to Trump in 2024, called the indictment "an outrage."Republicans framed the arrest as a political prosecution by a rogue Democratic district attorney who they said was weaponizing the criminal justice system.
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