Former President Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former U.S. president in history to be indicted.
Trump’s attorney, Joseph Tacopina, confirmed the indictment by the office of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg to The Epoch Times on March 30.
Bragg’s office has been investigating Trump for his alleged involvement in a $130,000 payment to adult entertainment actress Stormy Daniels by Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen in the leadup to the 2016 presidential election. The payment allegedly was to stop Daniels from going public with an affair she claims to have had with Trump, who denies the claim.
The indictment came after weekslong proceedings where a grand jury heard testimony from former Trump associates, including Cohen and Cohen’s former attorney Robert Costello….