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Donald Trump gives the thumbs up prior to court hearing

Donald Trump doesn’t seem to have been shaken by the fact that he is the first president in US history to be charged with a crime.

The former US president was photographed through the windows of his vehicle waving and giving cheerleaders the thumbs up.

On Saturday, he was spotted by photographers as he departed the Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump is anticipated to turn himself in to the police in New York.

Former US President Donald Trump sits in the rear of his limousine as he departs Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 1, 2023. - Trump is expected to surrender to the authorities in New York on April 4, 2023 to face charges over a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
Former US President Donald Trump sits in the rear of his limousine as he departs Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 1, 2023 (Picture: AFP)

He faces charges over allegations he made hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. 

It will mark the first time a US president has ever been subject to criminal proceedings. 

The recent indictment accuses Mr Trump of falsifying business records, chiefly over a payment of $130,000 (£105,000) to Ms Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election for her silence over a purported extramarital affair.

The alleged sexual encounter is believed to have taken place at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006, just four months after the birth of Barron Trump, Mr Trump’s only child with his third wife, Melania Trump.

Mr Trump has said he will fight the allegations, and that they will not affect his ambitions for the 2024 presidential election.

He claims to have raised more than $4,000,000 towards his upcoming campaign in the first 24 hours after the indictment was publicly announced.

The former president has told supporters the proceedings show he is the victim of a ‘witch-hunt’ by the US political establishment.

Ms Daniel’s allegations aren’t the first time Mr Trump has been accused of sexual impropriety.

Rumours of extramarital affairs have followed him throughout his career, with at least 26 women accusing him of sexual misconduct stretching back to the 1970s.

In another historic first, he was also twice impeached during his time as president – once for allegedly trying to turn up dirt on then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and a second time for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol building. 

The hush-money case isn’t the only investigation into Mr Trump’s affairs launched following his time in office.

In July 2021, New York prosecutors charged The Trump Organization over a ‘15 year scheme to defraud the US government’.

The following August, his resort in Mar-a-Lago was raided by FBI officers looking to retrieve classified documents related to national security interests. 

Ms Daniels had been due to give a world-exclusive interview with Piers Morgan on Friday night.

Her interview was cancelled at the 11th hour, with security issues cited.

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