Multiple media outlets are reporting on Thursday evening that former President Donald J. Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury…
While there hasn’t been formal confirmation as of 6 p.m. EST, it’s been widely-discussed that the Manhattan district attorney’s office was probing flimsy charges pertaining to an alleged “hush money” payout to porn star Stormy Daniels…
Working in Trump’s favor? The fact that conviction requires a higher standard of proof than indictment. “Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York opted out of charging Trump related to the Stormy Daniels payment in 2019, even as Cohen implicated him as part of his plea deal,” explained Fox News in its own report. “The Federal Election Commission also tossed its investigation into the matter in 2021…”
Trump’s indictment is the first faced by a U.S. president in American history, and it throws the 2024 presidential cycle into an elevated level of uncertainty in light of the ex-president’s early frontrunner status in the battle for the GOP nomination…
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