The decision to charge Trump for hush money payments during his 2016 campaign is just one of many probes facing him.
Trump was heading to New York on Monday and was due to surrender to prosecutors in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Trump is the first US president to face criminal charges and is due to be arraigned, fingerprinted and photographed at the Downtown Manhattan courthouse.
Trump will reportedly not be in handcuffs when present in New York next week to face criminal charges.
Raised in New York City's Harlem neighborhood, Bragg decided to go to law school, he said, after having a gun pulled on him six times growing up, three of the times by police.
Tacopina said Trump and his defense team were surprised by news of the indictment.
Russian spy Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov operated for a decade under a Brazilian alias and targeted the US and ICC in The Hague. However, he also gathered information on Israeli figures.