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At Mar-a-Lago, with Donald Trump supporters: "They want to stop him from showing up"

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"Maga" shows its support for former President Donald Trump, the day after he was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury at Mar-a-Lago. AP - Rebecca Blackwell

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Some supporters of Donald Trump gathered Friday, March 31 in front of his Florida residence after his indictment Thursday in a case related to a payment made to X star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

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With our Mar-a-Lago special envoy, David Thomson

She calls herself "Maga" Mary for "Make America great again" and the announcement of Donald Trump's indictment has completely devastated this retired nurse from Florida. "When I heard the news, I stopped everything. I was shocked, angry, hurt, saddened," she says. A lot of emotions.

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So with her flag, T-shirt and sequined cap "TRUMP 2024", "Maga" Mary immediately came to protest on the bridge of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's private club. For her, the indictment of the former president is necessarily political. "They want to stop him from showing up. They know he's going to win," she said. The former tenant of the White House dreams of reclaiming his chair in 2024.

"Martyr"

As for the Democratic prosecutor in Manhattan, African-American Alvin Bragg who led the investigation into the $ 130,000 paid by Donald Trump to an actress of film X to buy his silence just before the election of 2016, Mary does not have words harsh enough against him. "He's a political agent," she says. His right to practise should be suspended.

But this fervent supporter of Donald Trump sees at least an advantage to his indictment. "He's going to become a kind of martyr for us," she said. And Mary is convinced: it could help her win the next election.

Donald Trump's busy judicial agenda

With our correspondent in Washington, Guillaume Naudin

Being charged for trying to make up the payment of $130,000 to a porn actress in order to silence her about an alleged extramarital affair is not necessarily good news. But it may still be the least of the problems that await Donald Trump.

If we stick to matters of sex and money, his agenda is already full. In late April, a defamation lawsuit is scheduled for a former columnist who accuses him of raping her. Donald Trump denies, and in his defense, he explains that she is not his type of woman.

There are also the civil lawsuits launched by the New York attorney general who accuses him of falsifying the accounts of the Trump organization. It is asking for $250 million.

And then there are the Trump presidency cases. Currently, in Georgia, a grand jury is investigating his role in trying to change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in the state. This is the famous phone call to the Secretary of State asking him to find nearly 12,000 votes.

Finally, and these are the heaviest files, there is the investigation of special counsel Jack Smith into the management of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and his alleged role in the insurrection of January 6, 2021 to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's election.

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