USA: The Prosecutor's Office forms a grand jury to decide if there is basis for a trial against Donald Trump

The New York City Attorney’s Office has ordered the creation of a grand jury to decide whether there are grounds to open a lawsuit against former US President Donald Trump for possible crimes committed by his business conglomerate, the Trump Organization. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr has recently given the order, according to sources cited by ‘The Washington Post’, without further details being available at the moment. This grand jury is scheduled to meet three days a week for a period of six months. The news in the US newspaper has been published a week after the New York Prosecutor’s Office announced the opening of a criminal investigation against the Trump Organization, Since the investigations opened for possible tax crimes include the alleged commission of crimes, Trump has reacted to the reports from ‘The Washington Post’ stating that “it is a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of the United States.” “It began the day I got off the escalators of Trump Tower and has never stopped,” he said in a statement. In it, he criticized that “they spent two years and 48 million dollars () in taxpayer funds in (special counsel Robert) Mueller and Russia, Russia, Russia, the charade of the first impeachment, the charade of the second impeachment and continues to this day, with confidential information leaked illegally “” No other president in history has been subjected to what I have and, moreover, I have done a great job for the country, be it taxes, regulations, the Army, veterans, the Special Force, borders, the rapid creation of a great vaccine, which is said to be a miracle, and protect the second amendment (of the Constitution), ”he said.For this reason, Trump has stressed that “this is pure politics” and “an affront to the almost 75 million voters” who bet on him in the November 2020 presidential elections. “It is being promoted by highly partisan Democratic prosecutors”, has criticized. “The city and state of New York face the highest crime rates in their history and, instead of going after murderers, drug dealers, human traffickers and others, they go after Donald Trump”, Trump has also pointed out that it is “interesting” that a poll puts him “very much ahead of the Republican primaries and the general elections of 2024”, before noting that “the country is broken, the elections are rigged, corrupt and stolen, prosecutors are politicized. “I will continue fighting as I have done for the last five years,” he added. It is not the first time that Trump refers to the investigations against him in this way. Already in February he described as “fascist” and promoted “for political reasons” the investigations into possible personal tax crimes and his emporium, after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal to avoid the delivery of his tax returns for the last eight years to a New York court. Trump has several open judicial fronts, but one of the most important is the fraud investigation that the state of New York is carrying out on the businesses of the North American tycoon, without any relation to the decisions taken since he came to power. in 2016. Specifically, the New York Prosecutor’s Office examines possible crimes linked to the Trump Organization, the business conglomerate that Trump founded, suspected of falsifying records, tax fraud or insurance fraud.On the other hand, the attorney general of New York, Letitia James, investigates four real estate projects of the Trump Organization and its failed attempt to buy the Buffalo Bills rugby team. The investigations are in this case civil, not criminal, but it is not ruled out that they may be diverted to the other route if indications arise.