New York is still awaiting the possible indictment of former US President Donald Trump , while police barriers are deployed in front of Trump Tower and the Manhattan Courthouse, while journalists and law enforcement forces appear to be more numerous than the demonstrators supporting him.

Trump had confirmed that he would be arrested on Tuesday in the case of paying bribes to a pornographic actress. However, nothing happened.

Some US media outlets have speculated that a grand jury - a panel of citizens with broad investigative powers - could vote Wednesday evening in favor of an indictment, but it may take until next week for Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Berg to announce an indictment. Trump may then appear before a judge, after being held for a few minutes, symbolically.

Berg made no statement on the matter, and the grand jury works in secret to avoid perjury or tampering with witnesses before the trials begin, making it impossible to keep track of the proceedings.
In the latest statement from the Trump campaign team for the 2024 presidential election, two NYPD workers are pictured unloading a metal rail from a truck.

The photo was accompanied by a message intended to dramatize and solemnize the moment: "Barricades are being erected around the Manhattan courthouse while our nation awaits an announcement on whether President Donald Trump will be indicted even though he committed no crime."

Meanwhile, the 45th President of the United States (2017-2021) gives his constituents a date "on November 5, 2024, when we, the people, will take back the White House and restore America's greatness."

While waiting, he will have to answer before the courts regarding the payment of $ 130,000, before winning the 2016 presidential election, to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he supposedly had an affair.

Trump launched a pre-emptive strike on Saturday, announcing on his “Truth Social” platform that he would be formally and symbolically “arrested” on Tuesday.

And if he is arrested or even charged, it will set a precedent for a former president in the United States, because no American president has ever been charged, whether he was in office or left the White House.

He may be photographed and fingerprinted, and his hands may be handcuffed for a few minutes, based on US legal procedures.

However, the judicial authorities in New York want to avoid such a scene and the media and political chaos that may follow.

For his part, the billionaire denounced a "crackdown" led by the Democrats, while his calls for a "protest" failed.

Only about 40 of his supporters gathered on Tuesday in front of his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, while dozens of others gathered in New York on Monday outside the Palace of Justice and Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

However, fearing clashes in a city that has seen violence in the past, an NYPD spokesperson warned in an email that "the presence of uniformed police will increase in the city's five major boroughs...even if there is currently no threat." My grandfather is in New York."

Trumpists turn to social media to obstruct the judicial questioning of their champion. The Donald group on Reddit is striving to organize a "national strike".

The case of pornographic actress Stormy Daniels is legally complex. A New York court is seeking to determine whether Trump is guilty of misrepresenting data - a misdemeanor - or violating campaign finance laws - a criminal offense - by paying the woman, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, $130,000 in weeks. pre-election in November 2016.

Why? to buy her silence about an affair they believed to have existed outside of marriage, according to the charges.

The investigation, which took years, accelerated last week. Michael Cohn, Trump's former lawyer who paid off the sum in 2016 and has since become his enemy, testified before the grand jury. The actress also cooperated with prosecutors and the authority itself.

Also, Donald Trump was invited to speak before this jury, according to the American press. One of his lawyers said he would voluntarily "respond" to a summons from the New York judiciary.

The main fear of the authorities remains represented in repeating the chaos of the attack on the Capitol building in Washington on January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump called on his supporters to protest the results of the 2020 elections in which he was defeated by Joe Biden.

And he continues to assert, without evidence, that Biden "stole" the victory from him.