United States: a prosecutor accuses Trump of having "created a false expectation" on his "arrest"

By announcing on March 18 that he would be charged and arrested three days later by New York justice, Donald Trump "

" political and media, accused Thursday, March 23 in a letter to elected Republicans the prosecutor who is investigating the former president of the United States.

The 76-year-old Republican billionaire, who dreams of "

" to the White House in November 2024, must answer before the justice of the State of New York, and his Manhattan attorney Alvin Bragg, in a case of payment of 130,000 dollars, just before his presidential victory in November 2016, to an actress of pornographic films, Stormy Daniels, with whom he would have had an affair.

A flash

On Saturday morning March 18, Donald Trump pulled off a bang by writing on his social network Truth Social that he was going to be "

" the following Tuesday on a criminal charge by prosecutor Bragg.

But nothing has happened since.

Even if all week, New York (its police, its justice and the press) has been suspended from the hypothetical appearances, indictment and even brief “

” of the 45th President of the United States.

Which would be unprecedented in the United States.

Prosecutor Bragg, an elected Democrat at the head of the Manhattan prosecution since 2022 and who inherited the Trump / Stormy Daniels case, has remained silent since Saturday.

In a letter dated Thursday, addressed to three Republican parliamentarians and immediately made public, the services of Alvin Bragg complain about Donald Trump's message on Saturday on Truth Social and a letter that these elected officials sent to the prosecutor on Monday, summoning him to testify before a congressional committee.

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"No (...) legitimate basis"

These parliamentarians from the House of Representatives in Washington accuse in this letter consulted by AFP the prosecutor Bragg, a magistrate classified on the left, of carrying out "

".

"

," responded Leslie Dubeck, Alvin Bragg's corporate secretary, "

."

And "

."

"

", decides the Manhattan prosecutor's office in this Thursday letter.

New York justice has again postponed, possibly until next week, the possible criminal indictment of Donald Trump, which must be voted on by a grand jury, a panel of citizens with broad powers of attorney, according to media reports. investigation and who works with the prosecutor.