According to the office of Manhattan Chief Prosecutor Alvin Bragg, former President Donald Trump “created false expectations that he would be arrested the next day.”
These types of investigations are generally secret, although experts believe there are signs to understand that an impeachment is being prepared against the former president for the alleged payment of $130,000 to a porn actress to keep her silent.
Trump spread the word without any basis that he would be arrested on Tuesday. Several jurists claimed there is no delay because Bragg never communicated his schedule. They agreed that a matter like this, which would mean criminally charging a former president of the United States for the first time, needs to have everything well tied up.
But Trumpism has another conspiracy to believe in the patent of hearts of its leader.
He has not been arrested yet. The fact that the grand jury meeting was canceled on Wednesday and that everything indicated that the possible imputation would not be discussed this Thursday meant that the resolution was put on hold until the following week.
The situation caused the followers of the former president to spread that the delay is due to the fact that Trump, who did not agree to testify, has managed to dismantle the case with the collaboration of lawyer Robert Costello. The lawyer went to testify on Monday, at the request of the defense, with the intention of discrediting his colleague Michael Cohen, the author of the payment to Stormy Daniels with money that was later reimbursed by the then tenant of the White House .
The Prosecutor’s Office does not give explanations about its operation or how it approaches its work. Several media considered that the following Monday they would receive another testimony about the case and it was not ruled out that it was Cohen to give a reply to Costello, who at the time was his legal advisor.
Bragg, a Democrat, made it clear there is no such thing as a delay and attributed the uproar to Trump’s baseless meddling.
He expressed this in a letter addressed to the Republican legislators of the Lower House who demand an investigation into his action against the former president, described as an “unprecedented abuse of power”. The Manhattan prosecutor denied in his letter the request to provide testimony and documents.
“This is a request in a pending local prosecution”, he said. He insisted that the conservative representatives lack a “legitimate basis” for this operation that they undertake without knowing the intricacies of the matter.
He even describes it in his five folios as an “illegal incursion into the sovereignty of New York”.
He also reminded lawmakers of a key point. “If the grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump, the Prosecutor’s Office will have the obligation, as always, to provide a significant amount of the investigation to the accused so that he can prepare his defense.”
