Donald Trump is officially the first former president to be criminally charged and placed under arrest. Trump faces 34 counts of felony and faces a potential sentence of 136 years in prison for charges related to business tax fraud, hush money payments, and falsifying records.
A week before last, he was posting and discussing himself in the third person, saying he expected to be arrested. The “leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.”
No one really believed it would actually happen until yesterday, when he turned himself in to Manhattan Police. He was formally arrested, charged, and appeared in court the same day.
The Manhattan District Attorney had been investigating and preparing an indictment. He is now left fighting for his freedom and pleading “not guilty” to the charges. We will keep you updated as the story unfolds.