Stormy Daniels is happy about the indictment but she fears for her safety

The Trump Organization, the White House and the Manhattan Indictment: How did the ex-President Left Florida After a Grand Jury Meeting?

Trump and his attorneys, thinking Bragg might be reconsidering a potential indictment, were all caught off-guard, sources said. Some of Trump’s advisers had even left Palm Beach on Wednesday following news reports that the grand jury was taking a break, the sources added.

Youngkin didn’t mention the former president by name on his defense of Trump. He believed Bragg indicted a former President and current presidential candidate for political gain.

They were so patient that they waited. On the day of the grand jury’s meeting, jurors were told to stay away. Bragg and his top prosecutors huddled the rest of the week and over the weekend to determine a strategy that would effectively counter Costello’s testimony in the grand jury.

Prosecutors continued bringing in witnesses, including Pecker, the former head of American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer. The Trump Organization was established in February. The grand jury heard testimony from the controller. Members of Trump’s 2016 campaign, including Kellyanne Conway and Hope Hicks, also appeared. In March, Daniels met with prosecutors, her attorney said.

After the indictment, Trump ate dinner with his wife, Melania, Thursday evening and smiled while he greeted guests at his Mar-a-Lago club, according to a source familiar with the event.

If the Manhattan district attorney’s case is the strongest against the ex president despite the fact he tried to subvert the election and mishandled classified documents, then how far into the future will there be other investigations?

But it’s the Manhattan indictment, dating back to a payment made before the 2016 presidential election, that now sees Trump facing down criminal charges for the first time as he runs again for the White House in 2024.

But then-Manhattan District Attorney Vance’s team had already picked up the investigation into the hush money payments and begun looking at potential state law violations. They received subpoenas to the Trump organization, other witnesses, and met with Cohen who was in prison at the time.

At the time, federal prosecutors had determined they could not seek to indict Trump in the scheme because of US Justice Department regulations against charging a sitting president. The prosecutors in New York decided not to prosecute Trump after he left the White House, according to a recent book.

At that point, the investigation was focused on Trump’s financial statements and whether he knowingly misled lenders, insurers, and others by providing them false or misleading information about the value of his properties.

Weisselberg was sentenced to five months at Rikers Island after pleading guilty to the charges. Weisselberg would not tie Trump to any wrongdoing, even if prosecutors tried to make him cooperate against him.

Disagreements about the pace of the investigation had caused at least three career prosecutors to move off the investigation. CNN reported last year that they were worried that the investigation was moving too quickly without clear evidence to support possible charges.

Vance authorized the attorneys on the team to present evidence to the grand jury near the end of 2021, but he did not seek an indictment. Bragg, the newly elected district attorney, was the one who wanted to leave the decision to.

The previous District Attorney did not take up the case. The Justice Department didn’t take up the case,” wrote Bush, one of Trump’s top 2016 presidential rivals.

The letter, which CNN has reviewed, states that Pomerantz believes that Trump will be prosecuted for the criminal conduct they have been investigating.

Prosecutors were building a wide-ranging falsified business records case to include years of financial statements and the hush money payments, people with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN. The prosecutors believed that the felony charge related to the hush money would be thrown out by a judge, because of a novel legal theory.

We are following the leads in front of us and investigations are not linear. That’s what we’re doing,” Bragg told CNN in April 2022. “The investigation is very much ongoing.”

At the same time that Bragg’s criminal investigation into Trump lingered last year, another prosecution against the Trump Org. moved forward. In December, two Trump Org. The entities were ordered to pay a maximum penalty of 1.6 million dollars after being convicted at trial on 17 counts.

Cohen was brought back in to meet with Manhattan prosecutors. Cohen had previously met with prosecutors in the district attorney’s office 13 times over the course of the investigation. The January meeting was the first time in more than a year that they had taken a clear direction.

When the False Orange Messiah and the New York State Prosecutor Met Bragg in an Indictment of Donald P. Pomerantz

Pomerantz said he could not speak about what went through Bragg’s mind. I can surmise from what happened at the time and statements that he’s made since that he had misgivings about the strength of the case.”

According to the attorney, she went to New York prosecutors to argue that the president shouldn’t be indicted, and they didn’t give any details on the specific charges they were considering.

Senior staff members from the district attorney’s office and the police department met with the New York State Court Officers who protect the criminal court building in Manhattan after Trump called for protests.

During the void, Trump continued to launch verbal insults against Bragg, calling him a “degenerate psychopath.” Bragg has accused the four Republican chairmen of interfering with a local investigation and asked for an investigation to be closed. An envelope containing a suspicious white powder and a death threat to Bragg was to delivered to the building where the grand jury meets – the powder was deemed nonhazardous.

The grand jury would not meet again until Monday, March 27, when Pecker was ushered back to the grand jury in a government vehicle with tinted windows in a failed effort to evade detection by the media camped outside of the building where the grand jury meets.

Pecker, a longtime friend of Trump’s who had a history of orchestrating so-called “catch and kill” deals while at the National Enquirer, was involved with the Daniels’ deal from the beginning.

I suppose there is a presumption among certain kind of analyst that because Republicans are morally superior to Donald Trump, they’ll stick with him no matter what. They will be called to halt at the edge of a promised land when they cast their lots with the False Orange Messiah once again, because they refused to take a righteous stand against him.

There was a certain part of the media narrative that was turning against DeSantis, and it was because he wasn’t swinging back hard at any of Trump’s attacks. With the indictment, the narrative is likely to be that leading Republicans can’t even turn on Donald Trump because they will be condemned to nomination.

In reality, the electoral politics of the indictment are just as murky as they were when it was just a hypothetical. One can certainly imagine a world where a partisan-seeming prosecution bonds wavering conservatives to Trump and makes his path to the nomination easier. But one can equally imagine a world where the sheer mess involved in his tangle with the legal system ends up being a reason for even some Trump fans to move on to another choice. (A poll this week from Echelon Insights showing a swing toward DeSantis in the event of an indictment offers extremely tentative support for that possibility.)

Many Republican lawmakers and former elected officials dismissed the accusations of wrongdoing made against former President Donald Trump as politically motivated.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Bush called the Manhattan grand jury indictment a political matter and not a matter of justice in a Saturday morning statement.

Bush called for a Republican to challenge Trump in his bid for reelection in 2020. Trump lobbed insults at Bush on multiple occasions during the 2016 Republican primary before Bush suspended his campaign. The former governor wouldn’t vote for Trump.

The Youngkin Way: Monitoring Trump’s Indictment as it’s going to get Dragged on the Podolski Trail

At his speech Friday, Youngkin pivoted to an idea of putting politics down and saying he is more focused on helping Virginia residents.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski: Murkowski warned in a statement to CNN against “rushing to individual judgment” on Trump’s indictment before hearing the evidence.

“I am monitoring Donald Trump’s legal situation as it unfolds. Everyone deserves a fair legal process in this country, as no one is above the law. The indictment of a former President is unprecedented and must be handled with the utmost integrity and scrutiny,” she wrote. We must not rush to individual judgement, but evaluate the evidence as it becomes available and use it to let our opinions and statements about what is happening.

Bill Barr, who was the attorney general during the Trump administration, believes the indictment is a ‘political hit job’.

“It’s an abuse of the prosecutorial function,” Barr said at the National Review Institute summit. “It’s a disgrace if it turns out what we think it is.”

Barr felt that it would be politically damaging to the Republican Party. It was a “no-lose situation” for Democrats, as they could either focus on Trump at the moment or leave him to deal with another scandal after the election.

After the news broke that the New York grand jury indicted Trump, DeSantis commented on the matter, but forgot to mention the former president.

When the law has been weaponized for political purposes, and the left is using that to target their opponent, it’s when you know that it’s been done.

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Bragg’s predecessor did not take up the case. The Justice Department didn’t take up the case,” wrote Bush, one of Trump’s top 2016 presidential rivals.