Trump indicted

A New York grand jury indicted Donald Trump indicted over hush money payments made to a porn star during his 2016 campaign making him the first former US president to face criminal charges. The historic indictment of the 76-year-old Republican, who denies all wrongdoing in connection with the payments made ahead of the election that sent him to the White House, is certain to upend the current presidential race in which Trump hopes to regain office. This step will forever mark the legacy of the former president who survived two impeachments and kept prosecutors at bay over everything from the US Capitol riot to missing classified files and ironically landed in court over a sex scandal involving Stormy Daniels, a 44-year-old adult movie actress. Earlier Trump had declared he expected to be arrested within days over the payment to Daniels who received $130,000 weeks before the election that brought Trump to power, to stop her from going public about a tryst she claims they had a decade earlier. Surrendering for arraignment — which Trump’s lawyers have said he would do if indicted — would normally involve him being fingerprinted and photographed, potentially even handcuffed. It is reported that he could face as many as 30 counts related to business fraud. TW

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