What an indictment means for Trump the 'Teflon president'

Trump has a way of making bad news work in his favor

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New York City officials are bracing for possible protests after a Manhattan grand jury reportedly voted to indict former President Donald Trump. The ex-president previously said that he expected New York authorities to arrest him, and urged his supporters to stick up for him, saying: "Protest, take our nation back!"

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has wrapped up its investigation and will reportedly charge Trump with unspecified charges related to falsifying financial records to hide a 2016 hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels just ahead of Trump's election. Daniels claimed she had an affair with Trump years earlier, which Trump denied.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.