Are New York 検察官，検事s about to 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 Trump?
Michael Cohen was 宣告，判決d to three years for 詐欺, 税金 回避, lying to 議会, and 違法な （選挙などの）運動をする 出資／貢献s
Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen 証言するd before a 大陪審 in New York Monday as 検察官，検事s 近づく a momentous 決定／判定勝ち（する） on whether to 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 the ex-大統領，／社長 over hush money paid to a porn 星／主役にする.
If Manhattan 地区 弁護士／代理人／検事 Alvin Bragg とじ込み／提出するs an 起訴，告発 against the 76-year-old Trump then it would 示す the first time a former US leader has been 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d with a 罪，犯罪.
It would send shockwaves through the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and upend Trump's 企て，努力，提案 to 勝利，勝つ the 共和国の／共和党の 指名／任命 for the 2024 大統領の 選挙.
"My goal is to tell the truth," Cohen told reporters as he arrived at a courthouse, 追加するing that Trump "needs to 支払う／賃金 for his dirty 行為s."
Cohen's lawyer 確認するd to AFP that his 尋問 of his （弁護士の）依頼人 started at 2:00 pm (1800 GMT). A spokeswoman for Bragg 拒絶する／低下するd to comment.
In America, 検察官，検事s can put 証言，証人／目撃するs and 証拠 in 前線 of a 国民s' パネル盤 known as a 大陪審, which then decides whether there is a 事例／患者 to answer.
専門家s say 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s against Trump are likely but come with a 合法的な 危険 for Bragg -- an elected 民主党員 -- as he 報道によれば 追求するs an untested combination of 法律s.
嵐の Daniels said she had an 事件／事情／状勢 with Donald Trump before he was 大統領，／社長
His 調査 中心s on a $130,000 支払い（額） made two weeks before the 2016 大統領の 選挙, which Trump won, to an adult film actress known as 嵐の Daniels.
The money was 恐らく ーするつもりであるd to stop Daniels, whose real 指名する is Stephanie Clifford, from 公然と 公表する／暴露するing an 事件／事情／状勢 she says she had with Trump years earlier.
The 支払い（額） was made by Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, who said he was later reimbursed.
"He's the 重要な 証言，証人／目撃する. He'll put all the things together ーに関して／ーの点でs of how the 取引，協定 was made," said former 検察官，検事 Bennett Gershman, who is に引き続いて the 事例／患者 closely.
Cohen's 外見 comes after The New York Times and Washington 地位，任命する 報告（する）／憶測d last week that Bragg's team had 申し込む／申し出d Trump an 適切な時期 to 証言する.
Trump is almost 確かな to 拒絶する／低下する, to 避ける 潜在的に 罪を負わせるing himself, but 専門家s say the 招待 is a 調印する that he will almost certainly be 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d.
"I think it's pretty （疑いを）晴らす he's going to be 起訴するd because 検察官，検事s almost never 招待する the 的 of the 調査 to 証言する in the 大陪審 unless they're planning on 起訴するing that individual," Pace University 法律 professor Gershman told AFP.
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The 支払い（額） to Cohen, if not 適切に accounted, could result in a 軽罪 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 関係のある to falsifying of 商売／仕事 記録，記録的な／記録するs. That might be raised to a 重罪 if the 誤った accounting was ーするつもりであるd to cover up a second 罪，犯罪, such as a （選挙などの）運動をする 財政／金融 違反, the Times has 報告（する）／憶測d.
連合させるing the two 法律s in one 事例／患者 has never been tried before, によれば the Times, and 現在のs a 賭事 for Bragg. 安全な・保証するing a 有罪の判決 would likely be difficult.
"People seem to think it's just a 激突する dunk. There's no such thing," Hofstra 法律 professor Ellen Yaroshefsky told AFP.
Trump's lawyers are likely 会合 with 検察官，検事s to try to 説得する them not to bring 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s, 専門家s say.
They are 推定する／予想するd to attack the 信用性 of Cohen, who was 宣告，判決d to three years in 刑務所，拘置所 in 2018 on 連邦の 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s 関係のある to the hush 支払い（額）.
Cohen pleaded 有罪の but said he had been carrying out Trump's orders.
Trump 否定するs the 事件／事情／状勢 and last week 攻撃するd out on his Truth Social page, calling the 調査 "a political Witch-追跡（する）, trying to take 負かす／撃墜する the 主要な 候補者, by far, in the 共和国の／共和党の Party."
Donald Trump is 直面するing several 犯罪の 調査（する）s that could derail his 企て，努力，提案 for the 2024 共和国の／共和党の 指名／任命
He is 直面するing several 犯罪の 調査（する）s at the 明言する／公表する and 連邦の level over possible 悪事を働くこと before, during and after his first 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 in office that 脅す his new run at the White House.
In Georgia, a 検察官，検事 is 調査／捜査するing Trump and his 同盟（する）s' 成果／努力s to overturn his 2020 選挙 loss in the southern 明言する／公表する. The 大陪審 in that 事例／患者 has recommended 多重の 起訴，告発s, the forewoman 明らかにする／漏らすd last month.
The former 大統領，／社長 is also the 支配する of a 連邦の 調査（する） into his 扱うing of 分類するd 文書s 同様に as his possible 関与 in the January 6, 2021, 強襲，強姦 on the US （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂.
