EFE
The rally in which former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) was going to participate in the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, this Saturday, was canceled a few minutes before starting due to the thunderstorms expected in the area.
This was announced by Trump himself over the event's public address system 20 minutes before the start of the event: "A very bad storm is approaching and we will arrive in a few minutes, but they prefer that we not land because there is a certain danger and we want to make sure that everyone is safe." , the former president noted in an audio message.
Trump encouraged attendees to leave and take shelter and stated that he will make it up to them as soon as possible at the same location, at a “bigger and better” event.
This was going to be the first public act of the former Republican president, candidate for the November presidential elections, after the first criminal trial against him of the four to which he will have to undergo in the coming months began in New York this past week.
Last Monday the process began and Trump became the first former president of the United States to face a criminal trial.
Jury selection concluded on Friday after appointing the six alternate members of the criminal trial in which he is accused of falsifying documents to buy the silence of a porn actress and thus protect his career in the 2016 White House. The trial will continue on Monday.
According to prosecutors, Trump participated in a scheme with his then-lawyer Michael Cohen and others to influence the 2016 election by suppressing negative information, including a payment of $130,000 to silence actress Stormy Daniels from revealing a relationship. of Trump with her at the time when his wife Melania was pregnant.
In addition to this process in New York, Trump will also have to respond in courts in Georgia and Washington DC for his alleged attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential elections that he lost against Democrat Joe Biden, and in Florida, for the accusation of stealing illegally and keeping classified documents in his Mar-a-Lago mansion that he removed from the White House after leaving power.
