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HISTORIC DECISION IN THE USA

Ex-president allegedly paid porn star hush money.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump (76) will be indicted. It is the first time in the history of the United States that a president must answer the court.

With a serious face, Alvin Bragg leaves the court in New York. The prosecutor will put Trump on trial.

An official indictment is not expected until the next few days - but the decision to put Trump on trial was already made by an indictment jury at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Thursday.

Twitter email from Alvin Bragg.

As the New York Times reports, however, the court is likely about hush money that Trump paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels.

Porn star received $130,000 from Trump.

Michael Cohen had to testify in front of the indictment jury against Donald Trump.

Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen (56), paid hush money of 130 000 US dollars (about 122 000 euros) to porn actress Stormy Daniels (44) shortly before the presidential election in 2016.

Porn actress Stormy Daniels claims to have had an affair with Trump.

Stormy, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, met Trump in 2006 at a golf tournament in Nevada. Trump was then a TV star with his show "The Apprentice" - and already married to his current wife, Melania (52). According to Stormy Daniels (then 27), the entrepreneur invited her to dinner in his hotel room. He promised the porn actress he would get her on his show before the two slept together.

Daniels and Trump met several times after that. Then, in 2007, she claimed to have slept with him a second time - but the alleged promise was never kept. Instead, the frustrated porn star sold her story to a U.S. magazine four years later. But because Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, threatened legal action, the article was never published.

It wasn't until 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, that rumors about the affair boiled up again. In October - a few weeks before the election - a video went public in which Trump bragged that he could grab any woman between the legs because he was famous. Stormy Daniels an excellent opportunity to address journalists again.

Michael Cohen was supposed to use the hush money payment to prevent Trump's candidacy from being damaged in the crucial weeks before the election because of the alleged affair. Instead, the former lawyer was repaid the money by Donald Trump's company.

The problem: The hush money was an illegal campaign contribution. Cohen was therefore sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison and a fine of $50,000. The New York Supreme Court also disbarred him.

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Porn star Stormy Daniels opens up about Trump.

The ex-president admitted having paid the hush money but denied an affair with Stormy Daniels. Donald Trump had stated in advance that he expected to be arrested on March 21. He had called for the day his supporters to protest.

On Tuesday, it could be the day. Then Trumps wants to appear, according to his lawyer Susan R. Necheles at the Supreme Court of New York for the arraignment.

"We have contacted Mr. Trump's attorneys this evening so that his transfer to the Manhattan DA's office can be coordinated," the prosecutor in charge of the case, Alvin Bragg, announced on Twitter.

Trump accuses judiciary of "witch hunt."

Donald Trump called the indictment a "witch hunt." "This is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history," the former president claimed in a statement released Friday night. He accused Democrats led by Joe Biden of "abusing the rule of law as a weapon to punish a political opponent."

Incumbent U.S. President Joe Biden, 80, has not yet commented on the indictment. However, Biden had previously stressed that he would not influence the investigation under any circumstances.

Donald Trump wants to run for the White House again next year - whether that is still possible after the indictment remains to be seen ...

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