The former American president is accused of having bought the silence of an actress in 2016, in the middle of the electoral campaign. This payment may have violated campaign finance laws.
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The noose is tightening around Donald Trump. A grand jury in a New York court has voted to indict the former president in a 2016 case of buying the silence of a porn actress, US media, including the New York Times and CNN (in English). Justice considers that this payment could be a hidden donation to the electoral campaign of Trump, in violation of the laws of campaign of financing.
This is an unprecedented fact for a former president. Donald Trump, who dreams of winning her back in 2024, should be formally charged in the coming days by New York State justice and his attorney for Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, for the payment of 130,000 dollars to the actress and pornographic filmmaker Stormy Daniels.
For years, justice has sought to determine whether, in making this payment, the 76-year-old former Republican president was guilty of misrepresentation, a minor offense, or breach of campaign finance laws, a misdemeanor. penal. The goal was to keep her quiet a supposed extramarital affair 10 years earlier.
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