05.04.2023, 12:39
Die große Krawallshow blieb aus, auch die Demonstrationen von Gegnern und Fans des ehem. Präsidenten blieben weitgehend ruhig. Trump selbst erschien eher sang- und klanglos vor Gericht - und scheint sogar dabei einen irgendwie geknickten Eindruck zu hinterlassen, was für ihn ja eher untypisch ist.
Schneemann
Zitat:A ‘surreal’ day for Trump in court may only tear the country further aparthttps://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/05/polit...index.html
CNN — There were two big things to fear before Tuesday’s momentous first criminal arraignment of an ex-president of the United States.
The first was that while Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case might cite solid evidence of alleged wrongdoing by Donald Trump, his legal theory might prove too vague, complex and seem like too much of a throwback to a 7-year-old election to be an easy sell to the public. [...] The result is that another grim and even tragic chapter may lie ahead for a country that is still far from working through the fallout from Trump’s single term as it girds for yet another bitter election.
One of the most portentous days in American legal history began with the ex-president leaving his skyscraper home in the city where he found fame as a real estate shark and tabloid-filling celebrity but that was now set to place him under arrest.
Trump walked slowly through the door of the courthouse and was taken to be fingerprinted. News photographs of the once-most-powerful man in the world – with a face like thunder, seated at a table with lawyers like any other defendant – reflected his moment of stunning indignity. [...] The charging documents say that Trump and his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, worked with American Media Inc. to make payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal as well to a doorman at Trump Tower. Hush money payouts are not illegal. But Bragg, a Democrat, alleges that Trump falsified business records to hide the payments. Normally, such transgressions would be mere misdemeanors. But Bragg suggested that a felony can be charged if the books were cooked to hide evidence of criminal conduct connected to the 2016 campaign.
Schneemann