Former President of the United States donald trump, accused of an alleged irregular payment to the porn actress Stephanie Clifford, better known as stormy danielsget ready for appear next Tuesday before the New York judge handling the case.

He assures at a time like this that he had never had “so much support and love” before. And it is that this entire unprecedented situation —Trump is the first former US president to be charged— has managed to agitate and stress the political situation in the country.

In fact, it was Trump himself who for days was announcing his imminent arrest, warning his followers that this was nothing more than a “witch hunt”. That was the same message he gave after the accusation was made public.

On his ‘Truth Social’ network, Trump now claims that the support he says he is receiving is, in reality, “against the left-wing radicals, rioters, extortionists, scoundrel politicians and thugs who are destroying our country.”

And it is in this context that he has launched a fundraising campaign for the electoral campaign with which he will seek to be re-elected president of the United States. A petition that has gone directly to the rich: “If you have done well, which was possible thanks to the great policies of the Trump Administration -he says, in the third person- send your contribution to donaldjtrump.com”, he writes . It has already raised more than four million dollars.

This is how the newspaper ‘The New York Times’ points out precisely in an article that “Trump flourishes in the brilliance of his impeachment”and that contrary to other people who can be seriously damaged by knowing that they are going to be tried, the former president “raise money, promote your campaign and strives to reduce the case to a show”.

Pending his statement before the judge this Tuesday, his lawyers have already indicated that will appeal the imputationsince they maintain that Trump “is a victim of the corrupt and distorted version of justice of the American system and of history.”

Stick out your chest for the electoral polls

If this accusation will end up giving a boost to his candidacy, we will see it later. But the former president is trying to make it so, and this Sunday morning he published a statement with a poll that favors his electoral interests.

The survey highlights that former President Trump maintains a significant lead over their opponents in the Republican primaryand also about Joe Biden.

Out of 14 possible Republican primary candidates, former President Trump leads with 51% of the vote, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with 21%, former Vice President Mike Pence with 6% and Nikki Haley with 4%, while everyone else has 2% or less.

In a poll from last January prepared by his organization, Trump led with 43%, followed by DeSantis with 31%, so Trump’s advantage has gone from 12 points to 30 points.

The poll, based on a sample of 1,000 likely voters for the 2024 general election and conducted on behalf of Donald Trump’s campaign for president, was completed over a two-day period on March 31 and April 1.

The poll was conducted after media reports that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg planned to indict former President Trump.

According to a Fox News poll last Thursday, Trump leads the second best placed for the Republican nomination, DeSantis, by 30 points, with 54% of the vote compared to 24%.

New York cops ‘ready to respond’

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has claimed that its agents are “ready to respond” to the protests planned before the appearance of the former president

A spokesman for the NYPD has indicated that the police officers are “on alert” and they will remain “ready to respond as necessary”, despite the fact that he has remarked that “there are no current credible threats to the city”, according to the newspaper ‘The Hill’.

“The NYPD makes sure that thousands of events, including first amendment activities, are carried out safely in New York City like every year,” he said, before adding that “it will make sure that everyone can peacefully exercise their rights“.

Some Republicans, such as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, have already announced that they will participate in “a peaceful protest”, while a few days ago they deployed barricades in front of the Manhattan courthouse.