Employees of the US Secret Service, who provide security for former presidents of the country, are have begun to draw up a plan in the event that former US President Donald Trump is convicted and sent to prison. This was announced on Tuesday by ABC TV channel, TASS reported.
Media sources say Secret Service officials are planning contingency plans amid a lawsuit alleging the Trump Organization falsified financial records in its payments to former porn actress Stormy Daniels.
The reason for the investigation against the former US president was the publication of The Wall Street Journal in January 2018. According to it, a month before the Republican won the presidential election in 2016, his lawyer Michael Cohen paid the porn actress Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) $130,000 not to spread information about her relationship with Trump about 10 years ago.
In 2018, Cohen was sued on several charges, one of which involved violating Trump campaign finance rules, specifically payments to Daniels. At the time, prosecutors did not press charges against Trump, citing presidential immunity. However, in November 2022, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office opened a new investigation. According to investigators, Trump reimbursed his lawyer for money spent through the Trump Organization as payment for legal fees, citing a non-existent legal advance. On April 4, 2023, a New York court brought criminal charges against Trump in the Daniels payments case. So Trump became the first former president in US history to be charged with a crime.