- Title: Manhattan DA Bragg arrives, grand jury expected to meet on Trump charges
- Date: 27th March 2023
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 27, 2023) (REUTERS) SUV PULLING UP TO 1 HOGAN PLACE, MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY GETTING OUT AND WALKING INTO BUILDING WHERE HIS OFFICE IS LOCATED VARIOUS OF COURT OFFICERS AND POLICE OUTSIDE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY OFFICE VARIOUS OF MEDIA SET UP OUTSIDE
- Embargoed: 10th April 2023 14:21
- Keywords: Alvin Bragg Stormy Daniels Trump court grand jury hush money charges
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: US
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions,North America
- Reuters ID: LVA001058427032023RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arrived at his office in in New York under tight security on Monday (March 27) as a New York grand jury is mulling hush money charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump to porn star Stomy Daniels.
Trump, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential elections, has ramped up his rhetoric against New York prosecutors, who have said they would not be intimidated.
Trump falsely claims his defeat in 2020 was the result of fraud - a claim that inspired his followers to launch a deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to stop Congress from certifying the election of Democratic President Joe Biden, who bested the Republican Trump by more than seven million votes.
Daniels, an adult film actress and director whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she received money in exchange for keeping silent about a sexual encounter she had with Trump in 2006.
Trump has denied ever having an affair with Daniels, and has called the payment a "simple private transaction." He has said he did not commit a crime and has called the investigation, one of many legal hurdles that he faces, politically motivated.
The Manhattan grand jury probing Trump is expected to reconvene in this week.
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