New York: The world has yet to see what would be one of the most famous police mugshots in history, nine days after Donald Trump said he was about to be arrested over a hush-money payment to a porn star.

The Republican former US president, who has never shied away from the spotlight, announced on March 18 that he would be brought before a New York judge in three days, sending newsrooms in the US and abroad into a frenzy.

Trump's claim that the case had been completely dropped a week later was met with the appropriate level of scepticism because it turned out that he either had inaccurate information or was simply speculating.

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Despite the fact that the prosecutors may not be playing to Trump's tune, legal experts believe the 76-year-old billionaire, who is running for president once again, will soon have his Miranda rights read to him.

The National Enquirer's former publisher, a key figure in the hush money payment scheme, testified before the grand jury when it reconvened on Monday in Manhattan. The grand jury is a group of ordinary citizens with broad investigative powers who work with prosecutors.

The investigation is focused on the $130,000 paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels just weeks before the 2016 election to prevent her from disclosing information about a sex act she claims she had with Trump ten years prior.

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In 2019, Michael Cohen, the ex-attorney for Donald Trump who has testified before the grand jury, told Congress that he made the payment on Trump's behalf and was subsequently reimbursed.

The checks were allegedly not properly registered, which would typically result in a misdemeanour charge of falsifying business records, according to the prosecution.
However, if the district attorney can convince the grand jury that the payment and the dubious accounting were a part of a cover-up meant to help Trump's election campaign by burying the scandal, that charge could be upgraded to a felony.

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There are strict restrictions on how much a candidate can spend on their own campaign, and secretly transferring funds to a campaign can result in lengthy jail terms.

In the United States, where no president has ever been charged with a crime, charges of any kind would be unprecedented. The chief local prosecutor of Manhattan must follow the jury's verdict and make it public if they decide to indict Trump.