People around him Donald Trump they convey that the former president asked to appear in court in handcuffsif he is charged with money who paid for the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels.

The same sources tell the British Guardian that if he ends up having to go to court, which means he has to go through a formal process of being fingerprinted and photographed, intends to turn everything into a “show”adding, however, that in the case court invites him to appear via video, fearing he will appear weak and defeated.

He doesn’t take it seriously

At the same time, however, Donald Trump does not appear to have taken the matter very seriously. According to the New York Times, people who know him well say that in recent days he’s been cruising the beach in his golf cart and putting together party playlists. Since the 1970s, when he faced his first legal troubles, Trump was too afraid of arrest and invested a lot of time and money in building good relations with officials who might be involved in legal investigations against him or his business. For 40 years, he faced countless charges and investigative orders, but was never convicted of anything. This entry may end soon.

It is estimated that if the standard procedure with fingerprints and photographs is followed, the former US president will turn it into a “show”.

But the former president also appears to be discussing the possibility that his recent “campaign” — a series of personal, unsubstantiated and provocative attacks he launched against reporters, Democrats and fellow Republicans — might convince Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, to step down. resignation. from business.

This idea, according to legal experts, is extremely unlikely, but Trump used to believe that he can always “turn” difficult circumstances in his favor, and sometimes he succeeded. After all, he has a history of capitalizing on political scandals that would have wiped out most traditional politicians. However, for many people around him, Trump has lost his former fortitude.

Even before he was elected, in October 2016, the Washington Post published an excerpt from an Access Hollywood interview ten years earlier in which he boasted of grabbing women’s genitals without their consent. When Republicans urged him to leave that weekend, Trump responded by taking to the streets, where dozens of supporters had gathered, and became one with the crowd. Years later, in 2021, Trump worried about his political future at his home in Mar-a-Lago. He has just been impeached for the second time after his supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to undo his electoral defeat.