Trump says he “can’t have a fair trial” in New York

Former president Donald Trump He said today that he cannot have a fair trial in New York, a few hours after it became known about his accusation of irregular payment of 130,000 dollars to a porn actress in 2016, reports Efe.

On his Truth Social network, Trump, who has previously criticized the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden, attacked the impartiality of the New York court that must try him.

“They only brought this false, corrupt and shameful accusation against me because I am with the American people,” he wrote, “and they know that I cannot have a fair trial in New York,” he wrote, according to Efe.

Shortly before, Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor who will formalize the charges after hearing from a grand jury – which decided to indict the former president – said in a brief statement that he had already is negotiating with Trump’s lawyer to “turn him in” to have the charges read to him.

For her part, one of Trump’s lawyers, Susan R. Necheles, told the newspaper The New York Times what a trump card The delivery was supposed to be next Tuesday. to formally hear the accusation.

In addition to that statement, Trump also published on his Truth account the words of several Republican allies who strongly protested the charges, alongside a cartoon of himself holding a defendant-style sign in a police station that read: “Donald Trump 2024 is still the #1 threat to the system.”

So it is not clear whether Trump will present himself voluntarily – as his lawyer said – or if he will resist, in which he would have the help of his fellow believer, the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, according to Efe.