If Mr. Trump is charged he would be the first former U.S. president to be indicted on a smaller matter, which opens up the possibility he could be charged in other, far more politically charged and historically significant cases
For four years he was a president without precedent. He now may be on the verge of becoming a former president without precedent.may be indicted in a Manhattan court could set in motion complex and consequential constitutional legal struggles. It also could throw the 2024 presidential election into upheaval and create new divisions in American civic life.
The proceeding grows out of a relatively minor, non-political matter and is consequential more for the precedent it may break in American jurisprudence than for the significance of the offence – the payment of US$130,000 in hush money to porn star, who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. The former president has denied the allegations.
But if Mr. Trump is in fact indicted, a great, 234-year barrier will have been breached, potentially opening the possibility that he could be more easily charged in other, far more politically charged and historically significant cases. “Probably it will enhance my numbers,” he said of the prospect of being indicted. He added that the district attorneys across the country who are investigating him were racists; the New York district attorney, Alvin Bragg, is Black. Mr. Trump has called the Justice Department, which has its own investigations under way, “the Injustice Department.”
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