Prosecutors will try to negotiate Trump’s voluntary surrender if he is indicted

Prosecutors in New York and Georgia have long competed Who will put Donald Trump in jail? It remains to be seen, but all indications are that New York will lead the cat to water in fingerprinting. According to Politico’s sources, the most controversial former president of the USA could become a defendant this Tuesday or Wednesday.

On Saturday, Trump himself made sure that his followers were not taken aback by this news. Anticipating the protests it might spark, the New York police began Monday put up concrete barricades around the courthouse where the grand jury decides on the indictment. Everything was up in the air, except safety. Trump’s call to arms ruined the weekend for many top public safety officials, who spent Sunday and Monday in meetings to prepare a response.

It is about the coordination of various security forces, but mainly those of the New York police and secret services, whose priority is to protect the security of the former president. There will be no conflict of interest because no one believes that it is in the prosecution’s interest to show him in handcuffs. In fact, if Trump showed up in the building art deco A 17-story building in Lower Manhattan, the authorities will most likely do everything to build nor was he seen entering.

Payments

His lawyers are trying to portray him as a victim of revenge. This Monday, another Trump lawyer testified before a grand jury, robert costelloto recount the conversation he had with his predecessor in 2018 Michael Cohensentenced to three years in prison for the charges Trump is now being accused of: how he hid a $130,000 payment to a porn star from his accounts stormy danielsa week before the 2016 election.

From Cohen advanced money from his own pocket help the boss and ended up going to prisonNot surprisingly, he will be bitter and depressed. In fact, Cohen recounted this in a book titled Revenge. Both attorneys walked the steps of the courthouse Monday to testify one last time before members of a grand jury make a decision on their charges that appeared to be a foregone conclusion.

Experts believe it is Prosecutor Alvin Bragg he would allow Costello to appear, not as a courtesy to the former president, but to see what he might say during the trial. A process that could last two years and intersect with the 2024 elections, for which Trump has declared himself a candidate. Many believe that this is precisely why he hastened to announce his candidacy for this one serve as an alibi in case of imputation.

His strategy paid off. This weekend, a number of senior Republican Party officials came to his defense, warning that any allegation would be viewed as part of a conspiracy political persecution “inappropriate in the United States,” said the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. Even his former vice president Mike Pence, who could be hanged by Trump’s hordes on January 6, declared that “this is not what the American people want”.

Cunning was the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantiswhose country must approve the extradition from Trump to New York in case the former president does not want to surrender. “I don’t know what it is necessary to pay with black money to a porn star in order to guarantee their silence in the alleged affair“, he clarified, “but what I can say is that if you have a prosecutor who ignores the crimes committed in his jurisdiction every day, but decides to review something that happened years ago in order to use part of the payment to a porn star, that shows a political agenda and the militarization of his office.

After the grand jury hearing is over, the grand jury will have to deliver a sealed verdict on the charges to the prosecution. According to sources from Politicalthe prosecutor’s office would contact the magnate’s lawyers to mutually agree to report him and start a process against him. Only if he resists will they ask for a warrant this could make him a fugitive from justice and complicate his steps across the country.