Trump says he expects to be arrested on Tuesday, calls for protests

 

Bragg’s office earlier this month invited Trump to testify before the grand jury probing the payment, which legal experts said was a sign that an indictment was close.

Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal campaign finance violations tied to his arranging payments to Daniels and another woman in exchange for their silence about affairs they said they’d had with Trump, among other crimes.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan did not charge Trump with a crime. Bragg’s office last year won the conviction of the Trump Organization on tax fraud charges.

But Bragg declined to charge Trump himself with financial crimes related to his business practices, prompting two prosecutors who worked on the probe to resign.