Former US President Donald Trump has become the first US president to face criminal charges after being indicted by a New York grand jury.



He hasn't been charged yet, so we don't know what the district attorney wants to charge the former president with.

The indictment will remain sealed until Tuesday when the charges will be formally announced.

But the lawsuit is likely to focus on payments to the porn star during the 2016 election campaign, allegedly to buy the porn star's silence after allegations of an affair with Trump surfaced. disappeared

What is an indictment?

It means an indictment, a formal written charge against a person by prosecutors who they believe has committed a crime. The indictment contains basic information about the allegations and, in Trump's case, contains serious allegations.

These are crimes punishable by imprisonment for one year or more.

Unlike the charges brought by prosecutors, the indictment is the result of a secret ballot by a Manhattan grand jury in New York.

A grand jury is a group of citizens who hear testimony and evidence from witnesses and decide whether there is enough evidence to indict a person.


Will Trump be arrested?

An arrest does not always follow the filing of charges. But prosecutors have reportedly been in contact with Trump's lawyers, and the former president's team and other experts suggested they would make an arrest on Tuesday.

How that will happen is not yet clear, but if they make an arrest, they are expected to go through all the steps that anyone goes through when making an arrest.

They may also be handcuffed at the time of the arrest.

What is a "criminal walk"?

Now that Trump has been charged, he is expected to turn himself into the police on Tuesday. First, crowds of reporters armed with cameras and microphones will have to fight their way in front of New York courthouses.

Some suspects are led away by the police in handcuffs, while others are allowed to leave on their own.


Photos taken during a walk often become unforgettable moments of specific cases. Former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was brought to the New York Police Department building in handcuffs as he was accused of raping two women and criminal sexual conduct.

The moment caught on camera is still considered one of the most famous images of the 'Me Too' movement.

Another famous walk of the perpetrators involved former IMF chief Dominik Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a domestic worker. He appeared sweaty and tired in the photo and later complained that it was unfair to be paraded in front of the media in handcuffs.

"You're innocent until proven guilty," Strauss-Kahn told CNN in 2013. You're being portrayed as a criminal in front of everyone, and no one knows if that's true or not.'

Prosecutors dropped the charges against him, although he resigned from his job at the IMF and settled with his accuser out of court.

Several of Donald Trump's associates also had to take a criminal walk.

Coincidentally, it was Trump adviser and former U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani who popularized the criminal walk in the 1980s and 1990s. He knew the importance of presenting the defendant in handcuffs to the media.