Donald Trump, the former US President, has been indicted by a grand jury in New York for hush money payments he made to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign. This makes Trump the first former US President to face criminal charges. Manhattan District Attorney's office confirmed that it had contacted Trump's lawyers on Thursday evening to "coordinate his surrender" for arraignment in New York, with the charges to be revealed at that point. Trump's lawyers have said he would surrender for arraignment if indicted. Trump's allies and sons denounced the indictment as a vendetta aimed at derailing his 2024 campaign, while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed the indictment as "un-American." Following Donald Trump's indictment, Kevin McCarthy, the highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, claimed that it had caused "irreparable harm" to the nation. In contrast, Trump denounced the charges as "political persecution and election interference," angrily criticizing both prosecutors and Democrats and pledging that the consequences would befall President Joe Biden.
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