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He announced this on Monday night via the online network Truth Social, which he co-founded. He will leave his private home Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Monday at 12 noon (local time). “On Tuesday morning, believe it or not, I’m going to the courthouse. This isn’t America as it should be!” According to media reports, the indictment hearing in Manhattan, to which Trump must appear, is scheduled for Tuesday. The case is about hush money payments to a porn actress. New York is preparing for a large crowd and demonstrations. The first protests have already been announced. Trump is using the indictment to once again present himself as a victim of a politically controlled judiciary and to mobilize his supporters, on whose votes he will depend when running for the 2024 presidential election.
Trump is the first ex-president in the history of the United States to face criminal charges. The district attorney’s office in Manhattan had announced an indictment against the Republican Thursday evening.
Source: Nachrichten
