Anne Toulouse (in the United States) 08:59, 05 April 2023

Before a judge in New York, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to orchestrating payments to cover up embarrassing cases for him before the 2016 presidential election. The Republican, who is seeking re-election, faces 34 charges.

"I never imagined this possible in America," Trump said Tuesday night, outraged after his official indictment. In front of his supporters, in his Florida residence, the 76-year-old Republican called his impeachment "insulting the nation", detailed in 34 counts of falsification of accounting documents. Emerged free and without judicial control from his historic hearing, the billionaire should be tried next January. "The law is the same for everyone," said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

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34 settlements, 34 counts

The indictment does not reveal much more than what was already known, that is to say that Donald Trump is accused of making forgeries in order to conceal payments to cover up compromising disclosures about his love life. There were 34 transactions, hence the 34 charges that follow month after month the disguised payments.

How does this constitute a crime? Prosecutor Alvin Bragg explained that Donald Trump had been complicit in electoral fraud by concealing facts that could have harmed his candidacy in 2016. It has remained rather vague and we will only know the extent of the facts if there is a trial in a few months.

Accused of paying $30,000 to a doorman in his building

Donald Trump escaped what would have been an explosive adventure. The judge could have ordered him not to comment in public, which would have anesthetized his campaign. He merely asked him not to incitement to violence.

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Among the facts accused of Donald Trump, a payment of $ 30,000 to buy the silence of a doorman of his New York building who claimed to have information on a child out of wedlock, or $ 150,000 to a woman who presented herself as a former mistress.