Donald Trump is “deeply concerned” about the possibility of being arrested and fingerprinted, as legal sources claim the New York City district attorney has one more witness to interview – meaning his arrest could be delayed.
The former president claims he will be arrested on Tuesday for allegedly paying porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair. If Trump’s claims of impending arrest are true, he would be the first former president ever to face criminal charges.
Trump’s first legal meeting took place in the 1970s and he was reportedly very concerned about the prospect of being arrested, a source told reporters from The New York Timesincluding Maggie Haberman, who broke several exclusive statements about Trump during his presidency.
His concerns increased after his former Chief Financial Officer, Allen Weisselberg, was arrested in 2021 and he largely appeared in the media as he was escorted to court in handcuffs. Seeing his former close confidante in handcuffs and flanked by officers shocked him to the bone and those closest to him said he couldn’t believe what they were doing to Weisselberg.
Prosecutors in DA Alvin Bragg’s office, however, told the Times they didn’t know why Trump thought his arrest would take place as early as Tuesday. Insiders said one more witness is yet to testify before a grand jury, which could potentially delay his potential arrest.
Donald Trump is ‘deeply concerned’ about the potential arrest and fingerprinting as legal sources claim the New York City district attorney has one more witness to interview – meaning his arrest could come later than Tuesday
His former CFO Allen Weisselberg (pictured in a white mask) was arrested in 2021 and he was largely seen in the media being escorted to court in handcuffs, terrifying Trump
A source close to Trump’s advisers told the Times their best guess was Tuesday and that someone must have passed that on to the Republican before going to Truth Social to make his claims.
“There has been no report, other than illegal leaks from the Justice Department and the District Attorney’s office, to NBC and other fake news outlets, that the George Soros-funded radical left Democratic Attorney General in Manhattan has decided to end its witch hunt for the next level,” a Trump spokesperson told DailyMail.com in a statement.
President Trump rightly emphasizes his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system. He will be in Texas next weekend for a massive rally. Make America Great Again!’
His claims come more than six years after Trump’s lawyers paid Daniels a total of $130,000 to keep the affair quiet, with New York prosecutors considering whether he should be charged. Trump denies the affair and knowledge of the payments.
Trump claimed on his Truth Social account that the Manhattan district attorney’s office will arrest him within days and branded the investigation “corrupt and highly political,” calling the alleged hush money payment an “old and completely debunked fairy tale.” .
He wrote on his own social media platform, “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!’
His post came hours after it was alleged that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was planning to indict Trump next week.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, responded to the development on Saturday by stating that if he is indicted, Trump would be “re-elected with a landslide victory” in the 2024 presidential election.
The former president claims he will be arrested on Tuesday for allegedly paying porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair. If Trump’s claims of an imminent arrest are true, he would be the first former president ever to face criminal charges
Last week, the former president and 2024 hopeful was invited to testify before a grand jury in Manhattan, with his longtime fixer and former attorney Michael Cohen testifying Monday.
Cohen was in jail after pleading guilty to two criminal charges, including the use of campaign finance related to Daniels and another woman who allegedly had an affair with Trump.
He said he had acted on his orders and that the payouts were intended to keep the affair stories out of public knowledge before the 2016 election. Trump has admitted that he paid back Cohen
Daniels met with prosecutors on Wednesday to answer further questions in the case and her attorney, Clark Brewster, said she would also make herself available as a witness in the future if needed.
Cohen has also indicated that he has provided the grand jury with damning testimony implicating Trump. He testified for three hours on Monday.
He labeled them “corrupt and highly political” and called the alleged hush money payment an “old and completely debunked fairy tale.”
Prosecutors in DA Alvin Bragg’s office told the Times they didn’t know why Trump thought his arrest would take place as early as Tuesday. Insiders said one more witness is yet to testify before a grand jury, which could potentially delay his potential arrest
Beforehand, he said, “This is all about accountability. He must be held accountable for his dirty deeds.’
Speculation that charges were imminent also increased when Bragg told Trump’s team that the former president could testify before the grand jury if he wanted to — a notice usually at the end of a trial that could mean an indictment. is near.
Legal experts have said Trump could face either of two charges over the payments, but also admit that both are difficult to prove.
He could be charged with falsifying company records if it is alleged that Trump knew his commission deal with Cohen was a sham to facilitate payments. That would be a felony under New York law unless prosecutors prove files were falsified to cover up another crime, which would make it a misdemeanor.
That other crime could be that the payments violated the state’s election law, because the intent of the alleged reward was to benefit his campaign.
Trump could face up to four years in prison for those charges.
Trump’s attorney Joseph Tacopina also said this week that an indictment was “more likely” due to recent developments.
“But the one thing I still cling to is the hope that justice will prevail,” he said.
Tacopina also said he hopes DA Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan office “will not stoop to the level of Mark Pomerantz, who was looking for a crime that fits the person.”
Tacopina referenced a memoir by former Manhattan Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz, who led the agency’s investigation into Trump for a year starting February 2021.
In a letter sent to the commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation last Friday, Trump’s attorney accused Bragg and his predecessor, Cyrus Vance, Jr., of conducting a “politically motivated investigation.”
Prosecutors “armed” their office, Tacopina wrote, “by searching every aspect of President Trump’s personal life and business affairs going back decades, hoping to find a legal basis – no matter how far-fetched, novel or complex – to prosecute him.” . ‘
Vance has said “it’s hard to argue that the earlier investigations were politically motivated.”
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