Former President Donald Trump’s campaign attacked the Manhattan district attorney’s office Thursday ahead of possible charges related to his attempt to pay undercover money to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
The former president’s campaign released the fiery statement just days after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office subpoenaed Trump to testify before a grand jury, seen as a signal that an indictment could be imminent. Any indictment would be historic: No former US president has been indicted, and any indictment is sure to change the 2024 race for the Republican presidential nomination.
“President Donald J. Trump is completely innocent, he has done nothing wrong, and even the biggest and most radical Democrats on the left make that clear,” campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. . “From Russia, Russia, Russia, to the Mueller hoax, hoaxes 1 and 2, and even the illegal Mar-a-Lago raid, Democrats have been investigating and attacking President Trump since before he was elected, and they have failed every time. . “
The Manhattan investigation centers on a $130,000 payment to Daniels in the final days of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign after she claimed she was having an affair with him.
It is one of several ongoing investigations into Trump’s conduct, including his attempts to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election and an investigation into dozens of classified documents held at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, estate after they left the White House. .
The New York Times reported Thursday that the Trump camp is preparing a broad attack against Bragg and other prosecutors in his office aimed at smearing the group as criminal Democrats in an effort to inflame the outrage of his supporters. Trump’s team hopes to tie any allegations in the probe to President Joe Biden, the paper added, in an effort to make any allegations appear to be a political attack.
Cheung’s statement on Thursday appeared to be the first point of that attack, saying Bragg was “making a political donation of a different kind” to Biden and threatening that Trump supporters would not “tolerate” any allegations.
“Americans will not tolerate far-left Democrats turning our justice system into a system of injustice in order to influence the presidential election,” Cheung said. “Our country will not allow this to happen.”
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