Donald Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments designed to stifle claims that could be harmful to his candidacy, prosecutors said Tuesday in unsealing a historic 34-count felony indictment against the former president.was fingerprinted and escorted by Secret Service into the New York criminal courtroom Tuesday.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the grand jury found 34 pieces of evidence including invoices and vouchers and checks signed by Trump to cover up payments to Daniels and others. "That is a scheme to buy and suppress negative information to help Mr. Trump's chance of winning the election," said Bragg.
"The participants' scheme was illegal. The scheme violated New York election law, which makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means," said Bragg.
So this is what you get for being POTUS when your political opponents don't like you... This will come back to bite Democrats in many ways...