An attorney for Donald Trump said the former president will surrender if he is indicted in the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into alleged hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
“There won’t be a standoff at Mar-a-Lago with Secret Service and the Manhattan DA’s office,” Joe Tacopina told The New York Daily News.
Tacopina predicted that if Trump is indicted he will find a way to use it to benefit him politically as he seeks the Republican nomination for president.
“Most people would collapse under the weight of this,” Tacopina said. “He seems to turn everything into a positive and everything into a boost for his campaign, so I’m sure this will just join that long list of things that people think no one could overcome, but he will.”
District Attorney Alvin Bragg appears to be close to making a decision about whether to charge Trump in his investigation into $130,000 payment to Daniels before the 2016 election.
The former president is possibly facing felony charges of falsifying documents in connection to the payment.
Trump must surrender to New York authorities and appear in court to enter a plea if he is charged.
Sources told NBC News that law enforcement officials at the federal, state, and local level in New York a preparing for a possible indictment of the former president as soon as next week.
