Donald Trump indicted; expected to be arraigned Tuesday

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A New York grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump, according to sources. This marks the first time in U.S. history that a current or former president will face criminal charges. Sources tell CNN that Trump will face more than 30 counts related to business fraud. Trump calls the indictment "political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history." The Manhattan district attorney’s office has been investigating Trump in connection with his alleged role in a hush money payment scheme involving adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Our legal team, correspondents and analysts break down the historic indictment and reveal what could happen in the coming days. Plus, Donald Trump’s attorney Timothy Parlatore, who has represented the former president in a different case, tells AC360 that the timing of the indictment was a “surprise.” And Stormy Daniels’ attorney Clark Brewster tells Anderson Cooper why “the indictment of Donald Trump is no cause for joy.”

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0:00.0	Good evening, no sitting or former president has ever been charged with a crime until now,
0:14.0	Donald Trump has.
0:16.7	No more former president has ever surrendered to authorities or been fingerprinted, photographed
0:22.3	and arraigned.
0:23.4	So in Donald Trump will be here in Washington DC shockwaves are spreading from that Manhattan
0:28.8	Grand Juries' surprise decision to indict the former president in connection with hush
0:34.2	money payments to porn star and director Stormy Daniels.
0:37.4	Here in New York where the tremors began and from which Donald Trump first sprang to
0:40.9	national attention nearly 50 years ago authorities are preparing for his arrival and what could
0:45.4	potentially occur because of it.
0:47.2	As you look at a lot of pictures of Trump tower right now, consider that the man who came
0:50.5	down the escalator there almost eight years ago has already incited an attack on Congress.
0:56.2	And as you look at the courthouse where he is expected to be a rand consider he's already
0:59.6	verbally attacked the district attorney Alvin Bragg many times including again tonight.
1:04.7	Consider also Anderson that in addition to railing against Alvin Bragg as he recently
1:09.9	also did in Waco, Texas, Mr. Trump is already fundraising on this indictment so in one
1:15.4	sense we are on something of familiar ground here with an angry apparently corner Donald
1:21.7	Trump lashing out and also cashing in.
1:25.8	In another sense of course this is a whole new world for all of us and the first sad words
1:33.3	in a never before written chapter of American history.
1:36.7	Tonight we're going to have the reaction from all corners as it happens this is very much
1:40.7	a story just breaking in the hours ahead we'll look at what it what is happening now
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