Trump indicted in New York, expected to be arraigned next week
Al JazeeraRepublican, accused for role in hush-money payment before 2016 election, is the first former US president to be criminally prosecuted. After weeks of speculation, a New York grand jury voted on Thursday to indict Trump, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, making him the first former president to face criminal prosecution in US history. On Friday, Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina said during an interview on NBC’s “Today” show that the president planned to surrender willingly and “is not going to hole up in Mar-a-Lago”. The New York investigation centres on a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the waning days of the former president’s 2016 campaign. — Eric Trump March 30, 2023 He added that Trump’s indictment has divided people in the US, with the reaction being “largely along partisan lines”.