The court hearing lasted for an hour Donald Trump. The tycoon showed up in a blue suit and red tie for the appointment with history: he is the first former American president to be criminally charged and to end up under arrest.
In the Manhattan court he attended the reading of the 34 counts and declared himself not guilty at the hearingwhich he called “surreal”, for the case Stormy Daniels. According to the prosecution, he allegedly falsified registers and diverted funds to pay for the silence of two women during his 2016 electoral campaign, but among the charges there is also that of conspiracy against the state. The other woman in the investigation, in addition to the porn star Stormy Daniels, would be the former Playboy model Karen McDougall.
He was not handcuffed, but, according to reports from the Cnn, he would have specifically asked for his mugshot to be taken, which would not have happened. It had been hypothesized that he could have used it in the 2024 election campaign and the whole day in an armored and blocked New York is an anticipation of the clash that could come: on the one hand the supporters of the tycoon whom he greeted with a clenched fist in sign of victory, on the other those who would gladly see him condemned.
The tycoon did not speak either before or after the hearing. At the end he left the Manhattan courthouse with the convoy of cars he had arrived in. He would head to La Guardia airport, then leave for the Florida. The former president is expected to speak at 8.15pm local time, 2.15am in Italy, at a public event in Palm Beach.
No comment from the White House. President Joe Biden he is “focused on the American people,” said spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, answering a question about the US president’s reaction to Donald Trump’s arrest.
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