Now, Cohen is hoping to help prosecutors put him away.
Trump, who declared his third presidential campaign in November and is leading his Republican opponents in most polls, faced his first criminal investigation in the late 1970s. Necheles, said that his post had been based on news reports, and accused the Manhattan district attorney’s office of conducting a “political prosecution.”
Trump’s advisers had guessed that it could happen around then, and that someone might have relayed that to the former president.Ī lawyer for Mr.
One person with knowledge of the matter said that Mr. Trump’s spokesman did not explain how he had landed on Tuesday as an arrest date. One of the people said that even if the grand jury were to vote to indict the former president on Monday, a Tuesday surrender was unlikely, given the need to arrange timing, travel and other logistics. At least one more witness is expected to testify in front of the grand jury, which could delay an indictment, the people said. Trump’s lawyers when the charges - expected to stem from a 2016 hush money payment to a porn star - would be sought or an arrest made, people with knowledge of the matter said. Bragg have signaled that an indictment of Mr. Bragg.Ī spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment. Trump, posted on Twitter that he was calling for investigations into whether federal funds were being used for “politically motivated prosecutions,” a thinly veiled threat to Manhattan’s district attorney, Alvin L. Trump’s social media post had immediate impact: Within hours, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, one of the most powerful people in federal government and who partly owes his position to Mr. Trump had not written his post with direct knowledge of the timing of any arrest, adding, “President Trump is rightfully highlighting his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system.”īut Mr. Two hours later, a spokesman issued a statement saying that Mr. on Saturday in a post that ended with, “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. Trump made the declaration on his site, Truth Social, at 7:26 a.m. Trump sought to rally supporters to his side, declaring that he would be arrested on Tuesday and calling for protests. Maamoun Abdelkarim, Syria’s director of antiquities, has vowed that the famous monuments destroyed by Isis will be rebuilt from the rubble.With a Manhattan grand jury indictment likely but its timing unclear, Donald J. “What could be more appropriate than to have this symbol of freedom in front of City Hall, so close to where we had our own challenges,” Glen added. Just two days earlier, there was a bombing in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood injuring 29 people. The IDA’s dedication to preservation, means it ultimately intends to return the arch to Palmyra.Īt the unveiling, deputy mayor Alicia Glen said, the arch “was a symbol that we will not stand for acts of terrorists, we will not stand to have people murdered and thrown out of their countries.”
“It is our hope that the arch, itself an icon of destruction and rebirth, will remind visitors of both the universality of suffering and the indomitable human capacity to rebuild what has been lost.” In a recent statement, Roger Michael, the Executive Director of the IDA, drew parallels between the destruction of Palmyra’s landmarks and the violence that has marred London and New York’s landscape. But in New York, the arch is surrounded by ultra-modern skyscrapers and architectural landmarks including One World Trade Center and the Woolworth building. Palmyra itself, a former trade hub and major tourist site before the war, was located in central Syria, and its surrounding area was largely barren desert. A recreation of the Palmyra arch, a Roman arch destroyed by Isis, goes on display at City Hall park in New York.
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