Donald Trump arrested

The Manhattan grand jury will not meet on Wednesday, which means they won't be able to vote on whether to indict former President Donald Trump.

Trump is undoubtedly delighted by all of this, just as he was undoubtedly delighted by how his supporters — and the Republican Party as a whole — rallied to his defense as he pushed lies about the 2020 election. [have said](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/trump-will-surrender-to-face-charges-if-indicted-defense-lawyer-says.html) he will turn himself over voluntarily. It’s unlikely this will happen if and when he does get arrested, as authorities have reportedly been discussing how to avoid such a spectacle, but the report makes clear that the former president is treating his potential arrest as a PR boon. (Trump lost to Biden by over seven million votes in 2020.) “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. The former president announced his impending arrest on Saturday, a day after Fox News reported that prosecutors had requested a meeting with law enforcement to discuss logistics of taking him into custody.

Images depicting the "arrest" of Former President Donald Trump spread over the internet, like a warning of the incoming misinformation flood.

Those AI images are soon to compete with a real photograph of Trump’s dramatic arrest, which might even be dismissed as fake. Again, this already happens, but AI is giving propagandists some sharp tools, widening the pool of potential victims. The potential dangers of deep fakes have been Currently, voice-generators are been used to make bizarre clips of U.S. But that doesn’t mean things can’t any worse; they can, and likely will. The images were generated by Midjourney, which recently released an update that significantly boosts its capacity to create convincing fakes.

Trump would be the first ex-U.S. president to face criminal charges if a New York grand jury indicts him over a hush money payment to porn star Stormy ...

Trump's lawyers would be notified of the indictment and a surrender date will be determined. He will also be asked for so-called pedigree information, which is the defendant's personal information, including his name, address and date of birth. [grand jury hearing evidence](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/21/trump-grand-jury-live-updates-expected-indictment-in-payoff-to-porn-star-stormy-daniels.html) in the probe does vote for an indictment, it's unclear when Trump would be arrested. Trump [predicted](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/18/trump-says-he-will-be-arrested-tuesday-calls-on-supporters-to-protest-.html) that he'd be arrested on Tuesday, which came and went without incident. "He's not a risk of flight," Bachner said. Fleeing the charges "would blow up his image of virile masculinity worse than a horseless, shirted Vladimir Putin," Saland added. It could also be unsealed earlier by a judge overseeing the matter. Trump declined to testify. [reported](https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-trump-indictment-manhattan-bragg-perp-walk-20230320-yc5bkpbj6jdsph5xvmzu4spjoq-story.html) that Trump may be able to avoid an infamous "perp walk" — having to walk down a courthouse hallway in handcuffs in front of the press — to attend his arraignment. Trump was He has called on his supporters to [Donald Trump](https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/) said he expected to be arrested by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, which is in [the final stages](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/22/trump-grand-jury-live-updates-awaiting-indictment-in-porn-star-payoff.html) of an investigation into a hush money payment made to a porn star shortly before the 2016 presidential election.