Former US president Donald Trump is set to face criminal charges after being indicted over a probe into hush money paid to a porn star. Trump has accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of trying to hurt his electoral chances
The possible spectacle of Trump's appearance in Manhattan on Tuesday before a judge as the first sitting or former president to face criminal charges could further divide the world's most powerful country.
The first U.S. president to have tried to overthrow an election defeat, whose false claims of election fraud inspired the deadly U.S. Capitol assault on Jan. 6, 2021, signaled that he will continue to campaign even as he faces charges. While Trump claimed in a social media post on March 18 that he would be arrested in days, Trump's first reaction at the news was "shock," said one of his attorneys, Joe Tacopina, in a Friday interview on ABC.
"This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history," Trump said in a statement.he is known to face - including federal probes into his retention of classified documents and attempts to overturn his election defeat, and a separate Georgia probe into his attempt to overturn his loss in that state.
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