A grand jury indicted Trump final week within the case introduced by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat.
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Donald Trump has left Florida for New York the place he’ll give up to prison costs, taking the United States into uncharted and doubtlessly risky territory.
The 76-year-old Republican, the primary American president ever to be criminally indicted, can be formally charged Tuesday over hush cash paid to a grownup film actress through the 2016 election marketing campaign.
Dozens of individuals, many waving pro-Trump banners and American flags, lined the route as Trump’s motorcade raced from his Florida mansion to the airport on Monday the place he boarded his personal Boeing 757 emblazoned together with his title on the fuselage.
“HEADING TO NEW YORK. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!,” Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social, minutes earlier than he took off at 1700 GMT (1 pm).
“WITCH HUNT, as our once great Country is going to HELL!”
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New York on excessive alert
New York police had been on excessive alert forward of Trump’s arrival, with safety cordons and Secret Service brokers outdoors Trump Tower and the prison court docket the place he’ll seem earlier than a choose Tuesday afternoon.
New York Mayor Eric Adams warned that anybody protesting violently throughout Trump’s historic arraignment can be “arrested and held accountable, no matter who you are.”
“While there may be some rabble rousers thinking about coming to our city tomorrow our message is clear, is simple: ‘control yourselves’,” the mayor instructed a press convention, including that there have been no particular, credible threats.
‘Perp stroll’
There isn’t any roadmap for a former president’s give up to court docket authorities, and it stays to be seen whether or not the famously unpredictable Trump will observe the script, or discover a option to upend occasions.
“It’s all up in the air,” Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina stated on TV channel CNN on Sunday.
But a “perp walk” – through which a defendant is escorted in handcuffs previous media cameras – is unlikely for an ex-president below US Secret Service safety, Tacopina stated.
“Hopefully this will be as painless and classy as possible for a situation like this.”
A grand jury indicted Trump final week within the case introduced by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat.
Facing myriad costs
The particular costs can be revealed throughout Tuesday’s listening to.
They revolve across the investigation of $130,000 paid to grownup film actress Stormy Daniels simply days earlier than Trump’s election win.
Trump’s former lawyer and aide Michael Cohen, who has since turned in opposition to his ex-boss, says he organized the cost to Daniels in change for her silence a few tryst she says she had with Trump in 2006.
Trump, who was already married to his spouse Melania on the time, denies the affair.
Legal specialists have advised that if not correctly accounted for, the cost might end in misdemeanor costs for falsifying business information that could possibly be raised to felonies if it was meant to cowl up a marketing campaign finance violation.
The Daniels case is just one of a number of investigations threatening Trump.
Trump survived two impeachments whereas within the White House and saved prosecutors at bay over all the pieces from the US Capitol riot to lacking categorized recordsdata.
He faces felony investigations in Georgia referring to the 2020 election and in Washington over each the categorized recordsdata and the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol by his supporters.
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