Donald Trump will not be in handcuffs when the former US president arrives in New York early next week to file criminal charges against him, under terms of a deal reached by Trump’s defense lawyers and Manhattan prosecutors, tycoon lawyer Joe Tacopina said today. .

Takopina said in an interview that he expected the arrest to be made in the usual manner next Tuesday, when Trump is likely to be charged after prosecutors investigate payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence, according to Trump’s 2016 statement. campaign.

“I don’t know how things will turn out. There is no textbook to read on how to bring charges against the former president of the United States of America in criminal court,” the lawyer emphasized, noting that Trump and his defense team were surprised to hear the news of the criminal prosecution. “At first we were all shocked. We didn’t think we were really going to have to go through this because there is no crime in this case.”

Donald Trump faces criminal charges in a 2016 porn star silence purchase case and is expected to be brought to justice in New York, possibly on Tuesday, in an unprecedented historical precedent for a former President of the United States. , whom Trump denounced in his speech yesterday for “political harassment” and denying his “innocence”.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to be charged with paying $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, shortly before the 2016 presidential election.

According to the White House, the current president of the country, Joe Biden, learned from the news about the prosecution of Trump.

Source: APE-MPE, Reuters, AFP.