USA: ‘We cannot and will not normalise serious criminal conduct’: Manhattan DA Bragg after Trump's arraignment

District Attorney Alvin Bragg

New York, Apr 5 (PTI) The New York state will "not normalise" serious criminal conduct, "no matter who you are," Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, has asserted, hours after former US President Donald Trump was arraigned in a courtroom here.

Trump, 76, the first former US President to be criminally charged, pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential elections at his arraignment here in Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday.

Bragg is the first Black Manhattan District Attorney and a fellow New Yorker who handed over an indictment on criminal charges to Trump.