Former President Trump was indicted on criminal charges in New York Thursday afternoon for his alleged role in making illegal campaign payments during his 2016 presidential campaign.
According to multiple media reports, the indictment has been filed under seal and will be announced in the coming days.
The charges are not publicly known at this time.
This is the first time a former president has faced legal charges.
It remains unclear under which circumstances the former president will appear in New York and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office will reach out to the former president’s legal team to discuss his surrender.
In a statement, the former president reacted to the news by describing the indictment as “Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.”
“This is Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history. From the time I came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower, and even before I was sworn in as your President of the United States, the Radical Left Democrats – the enemy of the hard-working men and women of this Country – have been engaged in a Witch-Hunt to destroy the Make America Great Again movement,” Trump said.
“You remember it just like I do: Russia, Russia, Russia; the Mueller Hoax; Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine; Impeachment Hoax 1; Impeachment Hoax 2; the illegal and unconstitutional Mar-a-Lago raid; and now this,” Trump added.
“Never before in our Nation’s history has this been done,” the statement continued.
“The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades, including spying on my campaign, but weaponizing our justice system to punish a political opponent, who just so happens to be a President of the United States and by far the leading Republican candidate for President, has never happened before. Ever.,” Trump noted.
“Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who was hand-picked and funded by George Soros, is a disgrace. Rather than stopping the unprecedented crime wave taking over New York City, he’s doing Joe Biden’s dirty work, ignoring the murders and burglaries and assaults he should be focused on. This is how Bragg spends his time!
“I believe this Witch-Hunt will backfire massively on Joe Biden. The American people realize exactly what the Radical Left Democrats are doing here. Everyone can see it. So our Movement, and our Party — united and strong — will first defeat Alvin Bragg, and then we will defeat Joe Biden, and we are going to throw every last one of these Crooked Democrats out of office so we can MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump concluded.
In a statement of his own, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is also expected to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination for president, described the indictment as a “weaponization of the legal system” and promised that his state will “not assist in an extradition request.”
“The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head,” the Florida governor wrote, adding that it “is un-American.”
“Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with this Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda,” DeSantis added.
However, the former president is not expected to resist and will likely surrender to the Manhattan DA’s office early next week, his attorney Joe Tacopina told NBC News.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Mashiach tzeiten, the crooked demorats go after this kadosh vitahor that we elected twice. How dare they? Orange man in a 2024 landslide!
Indicted… for?
The indictment is sealed… so only the judge and grand jury really know until it is unsealed or likely when it is read to Trump at his arraignment.
Hashem is talking to us and hinting that things can possibly get a little bit worse. The Almighty is begging and begging and begging for a permanent residence while we are busy with other stuff.
Why be Mikatraig on klal yisroel ?
I am not trying to be a Mekatreg.
I am trying to bring awareness to Hashem’s beautiful children that there is something that we can do and put a final end to all the bad things that are happening. In other words, we are in the driver’s seat. Instead of us just simply
reading the news, we can create the news and create real good news if we make a real effort to judge another person in a favorable manner and not to immediately assume that he was trying to hurt me. Maybe that guy really made a mistake and he sincerely regrets it.
Good Shabbos
Why is this indictment a bad thing? It’s great for everybody involved. Good for all the lawyer’s parnossa, good for Braggs so he can brag to his fellow dems, great for trump, because it helps him at least in the primaries. Only one you gotta feel sorry for is DeSantis, who is going to have a bit of a harder time winning the nomination. Hopefully, he’ll come through anyway.
The former Soviet Union started a long chess game in retaliation for the US undermining the CCCP through cultural infiltration during the 80s. Their game was a 40 year plan to infiltrate American academia with far left radicals on one hand, and inciting a cultural split by goading the far right on the other hand. The goal is simple and effective – subvert the US by using it’s own citizens against each other. Then, promote propaganda amongst the far right that the Jews are the ones doing all this degeneracy. What is the real end goal? Induce the Left and the Right to cut ties with Israel and abandon the Jewish people. Who overthrew the last legitimate Ukranian government?
Good. Sleazy, volatile, and dangerous president.
No one as dangerous as self hating Jews. No one as dangerous as socialist liberals.
Biden? I agree.
He was a great president, does that mean he didn’t break the law? Does that mean he should get away with it? Could be. Or maybe, a president should be held to a higher standard & be held responsible for his crimes. Does Alvin Bragg have a political motivation to indict Trump? Of Course he does! but Mr Trump has access to the top lawyers in the country & if he still get’s convicted, it’s quite likely he did the crimes & should face some responsibility for them.
You can indict a ham sandwich, only the government gets to present evidence at indictments, if any crime was commited it was at most a misdemeanor and either way the statute of limitations has passed. Bragg who downgraded a majority of felonies to misdemeanors is trying to upgrade a maybe misdemeanor into a felony, in order to get Trump to hobble his 2024 campaign.
A crime that was already investigated by the feds, campaign finance. They already said no crime. If you say, feds made a mistake, statute of limitations already passed.
Mr. Bragg has no legal right to use our very hard earned tax dollars and spend close to 50 million dollars of our hard earned salary and he is trying desperately to dig and dig and dig to try to find something. I prefer that my hard earned money should go to the people in NY that are sleeping on the street because they can not afford to rent a place. Meanwhile instead of helping the New Yorkers that are dying on the streets, Mr. Bragg is sitting in a very comfortable house and a very warm nicely heated home and busy 24/7 for the past few years trying to dig and dig to get Mr. Trump.
This is where my tax money is going.
Considering the nature of Trump’s crime, I am quite appalled by the “conservatives” coming to Trump’s defense. G-d help us.
This is the most intelligent comment on this post.