{"id":1907389,"date":"2023-03-30T21:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-banana-republic-era-is-here-manhattan-grand-jury-votes-to-indict-trump\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:03:34","slug":"americas-banana-republic-era-is-here-manhattan-grand-jury-votes-to-indict-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-banana-republic-era-is-here-manhattan-grand-jury-votes-to-indict-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Banana Republic Era Is Here: Manhattan Grand Jury Votes To Indict Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericas-banana-republic-era-is-here-manhattan-grand-jury-votes-to-indict-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1907389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump is facing indictment after a Manhattan grand jury voted in favor of charging him. This is the culmination of the Democrats&#8217; long-standing campaign to bring down the former President.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of working towards keeping the streets of New York City safe from violent criminals, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recently decided to go after Donald Trump for using his personal lawyer to pay $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. The charges have yet to be announced, but if Bragg has his way, Trump could face jail time over a case that the Department of Justice, Bragg&#8217;s predecessor, and the Federal Election Commission had originally chosen not to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to indict Trump is deeply troubling as it may further encourage political prosecutions in the US. This politicization of justice could lead to partisan operations against Republicans while Democrats get a free pass. <\/p>\n<p>Trump had predicted his arrest two weeks before the grand jury officially announced the indictment. He denounced the charges, calling them \u201cpolitical persecution\u201d and \u201celection interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Legal scholars and pundits suggest that the charge against Trump would only be a misdemeanor that carries no serious punishment, except for fines. However, Bragg pursued felony charges against Trump for falsifying business records to conceal federal campaign finance violations. This type of felony carries a five-year statute of limitations, but Bragg is likely to circumvent it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> Jordan Boyd, staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour, is a Baylor University graduate in political science and journalism. Boyd\u2019s work has been featured in Fox News, The Daily Wire, and RealClearPolitics. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats\u2019 years-long \u201cget Trump\u201d campaign culminated on Thursday when a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict the former president. Instead of devoting the time to keeping violent criminals off of New York City\u2019s streets, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recently decided to manufacture\u00a0justification to go after former President Donald Trump for using his personal lawyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1907390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7378,23177,9114,5262,6175,6937,5265,9519,9116,3634,4030],"class_list":["post-1907389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-americas","tag-banana","tag-era","tag-grand","tag-here","tag-indict","tag-jury","tag-manhattan","tag-republic","tag-trump","tag-votes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}