The date was eagerly awaited a few months before the American presidential election. Donald Trump will be the first former president of the United States to appear in a criminal trial on March 25 in a case involving payments to silence an alleged affair with a porn actress.
“We need a deadline”The Republican favorite for the November presidential election was announced on his arrival in front of the Manhattan courthouse on Thursday February 15. “How can you run for office when you are sitting in a court of law?”. “This is a way to hurt me in the election”slammed the former president, who regularly accuses judges of being under the thumb of the Democratic camp.
New York Court Judge Juan Murchan rejected Donald Trump’s requests to dismiss the lawsuit, as the Republican tycoon wanted.
The former Republican president is embroiled in a scandal that he apparently tried to cover up before it exploded when he was running for the White House in 2016: He is accused of accounting fraud after being paid by the Trump Organization. Pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels paid $130,000 not to disclose past relationships. This relationship dates back to 2006. Donald Trump was then married to Melania Trump, who had just given birth to their last son, Barron Trump.
Meanwhile, a Georgia judge on Thursday began hearing a motion from Donald Trump’s lawyers to dismiss election interference charges against the former president, accusing the prosecutor in charge of investigating the case of having a romantic relationship with a lawyer he hired. Work on this case.
The former president is actually being prosecuted in federal courts and the state of Georgia for his alleged illegal efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden. The federal trial in Washington was scheduled to begin on March 4 but was postponed while a ruling was made on possible criminal immunity for the former president.
For the moment, these cases and many others targeting Donald Trump have not damaged his credibility with the Republican activist base, and he easily won his party’s first two primaries for the November presidential nomination in the states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
At 77, the Republicans’ master has turned the courts into political forums. The Republican favorite took advantage of his every courtroom appearance to portray himself, without evidence, as the victim of a legal conspiracy orchestrated by prosecutors and judges in the pay of the Democratic camp. And his legal troubles allowed him to raise millions of dollars from activists.
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