Former President Trump enjoyed a quick nine holes of golf at his prestigious West Palm Beach club just hours before .
A source told DailyMail.com the embattled former president also had his regular table reserved in the club’s grill room – but did not end up staying for lunch.
The 2024 candidate has been spotted hitting the links numerous times in recent weeks as pressure mounted over looming charges, which are now expected in the coming days.
The grand jury’s historic indictment vote Thursday will see the former commander in chief arrested .
Trump was spotted playing a round of golf Wednesday, the day before his historic indictment
The former President also geared up to shoot a round of golf at his course in West Palm Beach last week
The bombshell indictment marks the end of a years-long investigation orchestrated by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, which has been probing a $130,000 hush money payment made by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, to Daniels, 44, during the 2016 presidential campaign.
In a statement after the indictment was announced, Trump lashed out at his impending arrest as ‘political persecution’ and ‘election interference’.
Last week, when the New York grand jury delayed its eventual decision, Trump was
It was the second day in a row he appeared at the course, where regulars say he can routinely be spotted golfing every day between Wednesdays and Sundays.
Trump kept up an appearance of business as usual to shoot a round of golf at his course in West Palm Beach last week
In his statement following the indictment vote, Trump claimed he had been the target of a ‘witch hunt’ ever since he ‘came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower’ when he announced his 2016 presidential run.
The indictment comes after it emerged Thursday that New York prosecutors were looking to charge Trump over a $150,000 payment made to another former Playboy model.
The impending arrest will make him the first former president to be charged with a crime, plunging the country into uncharted legal and political territory, with a candidate for president now facing the prospect of humiliating court appearances.
Trump will be
Trump, 76, will become the first US president since Ulysses S Grant to be arrested after a Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday to indict him
Trump was indicted Thursday over hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
For years, Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
In 2017, Cohen pleaded guilty to a myriad of federal charges, after telling a Manhattan court that Trump had instructed him to make the payments.
Despite his former lawyer spending time behind bars after pleading guilty to eight federal charges, including tax evasion, fraud and campaign finance violations, the investigation into Trump disappeared from the headlines as other legal cases focused on his family business and his actions around the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.
But investigations into his indictment ramped up in early 2023 after Cohen met with investigators from DA Bragg’s office and it emerged that the grand Pre 86 machine gun jury was considering evidence against him.
It remains unclear what evidence was heard due to grand jury hearings being conducted in secret.