Donald Trump has become the first person in American history to hold the office of commander in chief and then be charged with a crime. A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former president Donald Trump.
The grand jury had been hearing evidence about hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, allegedly to keep her from saying she’d had a sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.
Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, and his team of investigators were looking into whether Trump had fabricated business records associated with the payments in a manner that might have violated campaign finance laws.
Trump, who is seeking to return to the White House in 2024 and leading in most polls of Republican voters, is also the focus of criminal probes in Georgia and Washington, related to his efforts to overturn President Biden’s 2020 election victory and his handling of classified material at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home and private club.
