Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has been investigating a $130,000 payment made by Michael Cohen, a former Trump aide, to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The case would set a historic precedent, as no US president, in office or since leaving office, has ever been criminally charged. Trump is currently seeking the Republican nomination to run again in 2024.
Officials are meeting at the New York Police Department headquarters to plan the prosecution, according to an unidentified person involved in the planning, Politico reported.
“We will discuss how to impeach Trump,” the person involved in the planning said. “No decision has been made yet.” New York Mayor Eric Adams called the preparations routine.
Trump, whose supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election, said on Saturday that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday and called for protests.
Sources have said Bragg’s office has been presenting evidence to a grand jury about the payment, which was made in the final days of Trump’s 2016 campaign in exchange for Daniels’ silence about an affair he said he had with the billionaire. a decade earlier.
Trump has denied there was an affair and has called the investigation by Bragg, a Democrat, a witch hunt.