IMAGINE a former US president having his fingerprints and mugshot taken! A New York grand jury just indicted Trump, making him the first American president to face criminal charges. The exact nature of the charges remains unclear Friday because the indictment remained under seal, but they stem from payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign by Trump's lawyer to silence claims of hush money paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels about what she says was a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier after they met at a celebrity golf tournament.
Trump has decried the investigation as "the greatest witch hunt in history." He is the front-runner for the 2024 election, and the Democrats are resorting to every means to derail his candidacy as the approval ratings of Biden and Kamala are hovering at 40 percent going into the election year. Ongoing challenges of domestic violence, inflation, bank runs, de-dollarization of the world and the Ukraine imbroglio continue to hound the Biden White House.
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