Trump has denied the affair happened. “So what the grand jury is investigating is whether these payments to Michael Cohen … were actually an infringement of campaign spending funds,” said Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from Washington, DC. Trump’s lawyer told the CNBC channel on Friday evening that his client would surrender to face criminal charges if he were indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. If the Manhattan district attorney were to indict Trump, the 76-year-old would become the first former president to be charged with a crime.