{"id":25001,"date":"2023-03-30T18:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=25001"},"modified":"2023-03-30T18:08:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:08:46","slug":"donald-trump-to-be-charged-over-hush-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/03\/30\/donald-trump-to-be-charged-over-hush-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump to be charged over hush money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has been indicted over an alleged hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n

A grand jury voted to indict Trump over possible crimes related to a $130,000 (\u00a3105,000) payment to Daniels towards the end of the 2016 presidential election campaign.<\/p>\n

The grand jury has been hearing evidence from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office since January.<\/p>\n

The payment was allegedly made in exchange for Daniels’ silence about an alleged sexual encounter she said she had with Trump a decade earlier.<\/p>\n

The former US president’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen has said Trump directed hush payments to Daniels and to a second woman, former Playboy model Karen McDougal.<\/p>\n

McDougal said she had a sexual relationship with him. Trump has denied having affairs with either woman.<\/p>\n

Amid speculation in recent weeks that he was due to be indicted, Mr Trump urged his supporters to protest against the authorities if he is detained.<\/p>\n

He published a long statement describing the investigation as a “political witch-hunt trying to take down the leading candidate, by far, in the Republican Party”.<\/p>\n

“I did absolutely nothing wrong,” he said, before criticising a “corrupt, depraved and weaponised justice system”.<\/p>\n

Other ongoing cases Trump faces include a Georgia election interference probe and two federal investigations into his role in the 6 January 2001 insurrection at the US Capitol.<\/p>\n

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has spent nearly five years investigating Mr Trump.<\/p>\n

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Source: \u00a0\"Sky<\/a> news.sky.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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