Politics Trump charged with 34 felony counts in hush money cover-up case Former President Trump returns to Mar-a-Lago after his arraignment on charges related to an alleged scheme to cover up a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. That evidence includes checks allegedly signed directly by Trump, and other documents and ledgers maintained by the Trump Organization and the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, an entity created under New York law to hold Trump’s assets after he became president. Bragg, an elected Democrat, has defended the grand jury’s decision to indict Trump as grounded in state law, while Trump has called Bragg’s pursuit of the case a political attack.