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This Saturday, former president Donald Trump said through Truth Social that next Tuesday he will be arrested for having “secretly” paid model Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep her quiet about the supposed adventure they had in 2016.
Following the ex-president’s incendiary comment, criminal defense attorney and Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, Jonathan Turley, said through his social network Twitter that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case is unlikely to succeed.
“This is a faulty case if it is based on a state charge that effectively prosecutes federal election violation. That federal case was thrown out by the Justice Department.. There are also statute of limitations questions that may come into play,” she wrote in a first message.
Minutes later he responded to Trump’s claim that he will be arrested on Tuesday “Bragg may have highly motivated Thursdays and juries in New York, however, the novelty and questions in this case would likely present difficult appeals for the prosecution“.
…Bragg may be able to expect highly motivated judges and jurors in New York. However, the novelty and questions in this case would present difficult appellate issues for the prosecution.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 18, 2023
Just as Bragg believes that it is unlikely that Trump will be arrested as the former president claims, so too sees it necessary that the tycoon must “cover any incendiary rhetoric” after the call “Protest, take back our nation!”.
To the statements of Jonathan Turly are added those of the richest man in the world Elon Musk who through his Twitter account stated that “If this happens, Trump will be re-elected with a landslide victory.”
The case that falls on Trump focuses on the falsification of commercial records in connection with payments to his former attorney Michael Cohen to “silence” the porn model.
“Now the illegal leaks of a Corrupt and highly political Manhattan District Attorney’s officewhich has allowed new records for violent crimes to be established and whose leader is financed by George Soros, indicate that, without any crime being proven and based on an old and completely out of tune fairy tale (by numerous other prosecutors!) the leading Republican candidate and Former President of the United States of America will be arrested on Tuesday next week,” Trump wrote after it was claimed that the Manhattan district attorney planned to indict Trump.
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