<p>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg&#8217;s office has reportedly signaled to President Donald Trump&#8217;s legal team that he could face criminal charges for his alleged role in hush money payments to pornstar Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.</p>
<p>The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/nyregion/trump-potential-criminal-charges-bragg.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Trump has been offered the chance to testify before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the case.</p>
<p>“The Manhattan District Attorney’s threat to indict President Trump is simply insane,” a spokesman for Trump said in a statement. “It’s an embarrassment to the Democrat prosecutors, and it’s an embarrassment to New York City.”</p>
<p>The report noted that the offer for Trump to testify &#8220;almost always indicates an indictment is close&#8221; and that it would be &#8220;unusual&#8221; for any district attorney to give a potential defendant that notification &#8220;without ultimately seeking charges against&#8221; them.</p>
<p>The criminal investigation into Trump&#8217;s alleged $130,000 hush money payment to Daniels, who says that she had an affair with Trump, has lasted five years. The case involves a payment that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who pled guilty to felony charges related to the payment, made to Daniels during the election.</p>
<p>Daniels’ representatives contacted the National Enquirer about her story during the campaign, but the publication was not interested in buying the exclusive rights to it. The publication’s publisher brokered a deal between Cohen and Daniels.</p>
<p>The problem for Trump centers around how his company paid Cohen for the hush payment. The expense was listed as a legal expense and the company cited a retainer agreement with Cohen. The retainer agreement did not exist and the reimbursement was not related to any legal services from Cohen, thus setting up a potential misdemeanor criminal charge of falsifying business records.</p>
<p>The report said that prosecutors can elevate the misdemeanor to a felony if they can prove that Trump’s &#8220;&#8216;intent to defraud&#8217; included an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.&#8221;</p>
<p>Prosecutors argue that the second crime is that the $130,000 hush payment was an improper donation to the Trump campaign because the money was used to stop a story for the purpose of benefiting his campaign.</p>
<p>If Trump were to be convicted in the case, he would face a maximum of four years behind bars, although prison time is not mandatory.</p>
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<p>Trump later issued a lengthy <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109996492061858682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> saying that he did &#8220;absolutely nothing wrong&#8221; and that he never had an affair with Stormy Daniels, who he called &#8220;Horseface&#8221; in the statement, and that he never wanted to.</p>
<p>Trump claimed that the investigation was a &#8220;political Witch-Hunt&#8221; and that the only thing that he was guilty of was &#8220;beating all Republicans and Democrats badly in the Presidential race.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It is appalling that the Democrats would play this card and only means that they are certain that they cannot win at the voter booth, so they have to go to a tool that has never been used in such a way in our country, weaponized law enforcement,&#8221; he claimed.</p>

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