{"id":16623,"date":"2023-03-30T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=16623"},"modified":"2023-04-09T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T04:03:45","slug":"nyt-donald-trump-is-indicted-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=16623","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Donald Trump Is Indicted In New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"NYT%3A%20Donald%20Trump%20Is%20Indicted%20In%20New%20York\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/03\/30\/nyregion\/trump-indictment-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Special to the New York Times<\/strong>:<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>March 31st, 2023<\/strong><\/span> <strong>By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, William K. Rashbaum, Kate Christobek, Nate Schweber and Sean Piccoli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Donald J. Trump was indicted in Manhattan on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to five people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation\u2019s first former president to face criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">On Thursday evening, after news of the charges had been widely reported, the district attorney\u2019s office confirmed that Mr. Trump had been indicted and that prosecutors had contacted Mr. Trump\u2019s attorney to coordinate his surrender. Two people with knowledge of the matter said Mr. Trump was expected to turn himself in and face arraignment early next week, at which point the specific charges will be unsealed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has for decades avoided criminal charges despite persistent scrutiny and repeated investigations, creating an aura of legal invincibility that the indictment now threatens to puncture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">His actions surrounding his 2020 electoral defeat are now the focus of a separate federal investigation, and a Georgia prosecutor is in the final stages of an investigation into Mr. Trump\u2019s attempts to reverse the election results in that state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But unlike the investigations that arose from his time in the White House, this case is built around a tawdry episode that predates Mr. Trump\u2019s presidency. The reality star turned presidential candidate who shocked the political establishment by winning the White House now faces a reckoning for a hush money payment that buried a sex scandal in the final days of the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In a statement, Mr. Trump lashed out at Mr. Bragg, a Democrat, and portrayed the case as the continuation of a politically-motivated witch hunt against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history,\u201d Mr. Trump said in the statement, calling Mr. Bragg \u201ca disgrace\u201d and casting himself as \u201ca completely innocent person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has consistently denied all wrongdoing and said he did not have an affair with the porn star, Stormy Daniels, who had been looking to sell her story of a tryst with Mr. Trump during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, the three lead prosecutors on the Trump investigation walked into the building where the grand jury was sitting in the minutes before the panel was scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. One of them carried a copy of the penal law \u2014 with Post-it notes visible \u2014 which was likely used to read the criminal statutes to the grand jurors before they voted. About three hours later, the prosecutors walked into the court clerk\u2019s office through a back door to begin the process of filing the indictment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">For weeks, the atmosphere outside of the district attorney\u2019s office had resembled a circus. But the fervor had cooled in recent days, and the outskirts of the office were emptier on Thursday than they have been in weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Here\u2019s what else you need to know:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1ie9vib ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has consistently painted the investigation as a larger conspiracy forwarded by his political opponents. Though he insulted Mr. Bragg, he chose to lay the blame at the feet of his successor in the Oval Office. \u201cI believe this Witch-Hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">The prosecution\u2019s star witness is Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump\u2019s former fixer who paid the $130,000 to keep Ms. Daniels quiet. Mr. Cohen has said that Mr. Trump directed him to buy Ms. Daniels\u2019s silence, and that Mr. Trump and his family business, the Trump Organization, helped cover the whole thing up. The company\u2019s internal records falsely identified the reimbursements as legal expenses, which helped conceal the purpose of the payments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Although the specific charges remain unknown, Mr. Bragg\u2019s prosecutors have zeroed in on that hush money payment and the false records created by Mr. Trump\u2019s company. A conviction is not a sure thing: An attempt to combine a charge relating to the false records with an election violation relating to the payment to Ms. Daniels would be based on a legal theory that has yet to be evaluated by judges, raising the possibility that a court could throw out or limit the charges.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">The indictment, the product of a nearly five-year investigation, kicks off a new and volatile phase in Mr. Trump\u2019s post-presidential life as he makes a third run for the White House. And it could throw the race for the Republican nomination \u2014 which he leads in most polls \u2014 into uncharted territory.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-o74qhc eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Mr. Bragg is the first prosecutor to indict Mr. Trump. He is now likely to become a national figure enduring a harsh political spotlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-daiqw4 evys1bk0\"><strong>Mr. Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case is focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1baulvz\"><a class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/ben-protess\">Ben Protess<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz\"><a class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/jonah-e-bromwich\">Jonah E. Bromwich<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz\"><a class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/william-k-rashbaum\">William K. Rashbaum<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz\">Kate Christobek,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz\"><a class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/nate-schweber\">Nate Schweber<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\"><a class=\"css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/sean-piccoli\">Sean Piccoli<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"NYT%3A%20Donald%20Trump%20Is%20Indicted%20In%20New%20York\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Special to the New York Times: March 31st, 2023 By Ben Protess, Jonah E. 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