Former US President Donald Trump says he expects to be arrested on Tuesday in a case that involves him allegedly paying hush money to a porn star before the 2016 presidential election.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday, Trump called on his supporters to protest ahead of his alleged arrest.
“Leading Republican candidate & former President of the United States of America will be arrested on Tuesday of next week. Protest, take our nation back!” Trump wrote, referring to himself and citing a leak from the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
He did not say what the charges would be.
A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.
The investigation centres on a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, made to porn star Stormy Daniels in the waning days of Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said she was paid to not go public about an affair she says she had with Trump years earlier. Trump has denied the affair happened.
“So what the grand jury is investigating is whether these payments to Michael Cohen … were actually an infringement of campaign spending funds,” said Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from Washington, DC.
Trump’s lawyer told the CNBC channel on Friday evening that his client would surrender to face criminal charges if he were indicted by a Manhattan grand jury.
If the Manhattan district attorney were to indict Trump, the 76-year-old would become the first former president to be charged with a crime.
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