Arraignment

2023 - 4 - 3

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Trump to fly to New York City ahead of arraignment (CBS News)

A grand jury indicted the former president last week, although the charge or charges remain under seal. A source familiar with the investigation told CBS News ...

Alcazar said he believed there will be "several hundred" police officers present at the courthouse in downtown Manhattan. A source familiar with the investigation told CBS News on Saturday that the [president will be charged](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-faces-felony-charge-source-says/) with falsifying business records in the first degree, a felony. We are the safest large city in America because we respect the rule of law in New York City." Adams called out Taylor Greene, saying, "While you are in town, be on your best behavior." He is expected to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon, and will be "processed like any other defendant," CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman said. [grand jury indicted](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-indictment-charges-what-happens-next-surrender-arraignment/) the former president last week, although the charge or charges remain under seal.

Trump set to arrive in New York ahead of arraignment (PBS NewsHour)

Former President Donald Trump is planning to leave Florida for New York on Monday for his expected booking and arraignment the following day on charges ...

[potential rivals in next year’s GOP presidential primary](https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-2024-republican-election-81e8f659af7fc1313a42d51712349c23), have decried the case against him. [READ MORE: Trump’s indictment marks an end to decades of perceived legal immunity](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-indictment-marks-an-end-to-decades-of-perceived-legal-immunity) [facing multiple charges](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-indictment-marks-an-end-to-decades-of-perceived-legal-immunity) of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense, in the indictment handed down by a Manhattan grand jury last week. After initially being caught off guard by news of the indictment when it broke Thursday evening, Trump and his team are focused on using what they call a weak case against Trump to his advantage. No former president has ever been indicted and trump’s active campaign for the presidency during next year’s election only further raises the political stakes. They’ve taken steps to close and secure the courthouse floor where the former president is set to appear for an arraignment Tuesday afternoon. So far, officials have not seen an influx of people coming into the city, as was the case in Washington in the days before the Jan. The former president planned to spend the night at Trump Tower, then surrender to authorities on Tuesday for booking and a likely afternoon arraignment. [stemming from hush money payments during his 2016 campaign ](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-indictment-marks-an-end-to-decades-of-perceived-legal-immunity)— as politically motivated. Trump supporters, including one of his staunchest defenders in Congress, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, planned a rally in New York late Tuesday morning, probably before Trump would have to stand before a judge as part of the arraignment. “While there may be some rabble rousers thinking about coming to our city tomorrow, our message is clear and simple: control yourselves,” said New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Trump is traveling to New York for his arraignment. What's next? (NPR)

Former President Donald Trump is en route to New York City to surrender himself to authorities after his historic indictment by a Manhattan grand jury.

Trump's lawyers will be there every step of the way, and they'll have to make sure that the jury is fairly chosen and that the jury does its job." "And I think more than anything he probably wants that public stage to play the victim, to have an audience." Another factor will be the jury, said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina. And all of that will happen alongside the everyday operations of a busy state court office. After the hearing, Trump will be free to leave. Most similar cases would probably take a year to get to trial, Galluzzo says. Then, defendants go before a judge to hear the charges against them. He plans to immediately return to Florida, where that night he will give a speech, his campaign announced Sunday. Ultimately, more than half of the jurors were convinced there was reasonable cause to believe that Trump committed a crime, With Trump also facing [a handful of other ongoing criminal cases](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1164985436/trump-criminal-investigations), "we're in for a very rocky spring," Brinkley said. He has a large legal team and a Secret Service detail. An arraignment is a criminal defendant's first court appearance.

Donald Trump arrives in New York ahead of arraignment (BBC News)

The former US president is now making his way to Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he will spend the night before attending court on Tuesday. The exact charges he ...

Mr Trump waved at supporters as he walked into the tower under tight security, just after 16:15 local time (20:15 GMT). His lawyers have already said he will plead not guilty. Dozens of media crews had set up camp on every available corner while at least five news helicopters hovered high over Fifth Avenue.

Trump's surreal surrender (Axios)

Why it matters: Trump, the first current or former president to be indicted, has always used drama and victimhood to score political points — and his surrender ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a fervent Trump supporter, a featured speaker. Such photos usually aren't released publicly in New York — but the intense interest in Trump’s case could change that. [new CNN poll](https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/politics/cnn-poll-trump-indictment/index.html)indicates that [60% of Americans approve of the indictment.](https://www.axios.com/2023/04/03/polling-trump-indictment-republicans-democrats) - Trump's appearance before Judge Juan Merchan is expected to last 15 minutes or so. [Allen Weisselberg](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/politics/allen-weisselberg-sentencing-trump-organization/index.html), a former Trump Organization executive, into pleading guilty in exchange for a five-month sentence in a tax fraud case. [New York Young Republican Club](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/nyregion/republicans-roger-stone-ny.html) will hold a rally protesting Trump’s indictment, with Rep. [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/21/trump-case-alvin-bragg-manhattan-district-attorney) case against Trump will become clear: The indictment — which reports have indicated could charge Trump with [30 or more counts](https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/31/politics/trump-indictment-what-to-know/index.html) that include [illegal hush money payments to a porn star](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/18/trump-stormy-daniels-payment-probe) — will be released. [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/us/donald-trump-indicted-new-york.html). [New York officials prepared for Trump's arrival](https://www.axios.com/2023/04/03/trump-arraignment-new-york-police-security) by putting all 36,000 of the city’s police officers on alert and erecting barriers for several blocks around the courthouse on Centre Street in Lower Manhattan. [indicted](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/30/trump-indicted-manhattan-grand-jury-criminal), has always used drama and victimhood to score political points — and his surrender to Manhattan authorities will be choreographed through the lens of his current campaign for president. [pre-indictment forecast](https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-warns-death-destruction-if-charged-with-crime-2023-03-24/)of "death and destruction" had led to any credible threats of violence. [Donald Trump’s](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump) tradition-wrecking era in politics, the scene Tuesday will be extraordinary: A Secret Service motorcade will deliver an ex-president to a courthouse, where he’ll be arraigned on felony charges.

How New York Is Preparing for the Security Risks Around Trump's ... (TIME)

Trump Tower is circled with barriers as security forces take measures ahead of former President Donald Trump's arrival for a court hearing in New York, on April ...

“He needs to find a more veiled way to communicate his directives,” one person wrote on a MAGA online board. “There is a single day when he physically will be in a place and people will want to defend him, so that’s a moment of higher danger than normal.” “A death threat on Bragg helps nobody in the MAGA movement…so who benefits?” one person asked on a popular pro-Trump forum. After the FBI searched Trump’s residence at his West Palm Beach resort last year, an armed man in Ohio who had been posting on pro-Trump forums tried to attack the FBI’s field office in Cincinnati before being killed in a standoff with police. (The substance was later found to be non-hazardous, according to the NYPD.) Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she would be there on Tuesday to “protest this unprecedented abuse of our justice system and election interference.” She is scheduled to speak at a rally organized by the New York Young Republicans Club, which held a previous protest last month which reportedly drew about 50 people. When Trump called on supporters to protest what he said was his impending indictment on March 18, there was little enthusiasm from the MAGA faithful. While so far there have been no signs of the kind of online organizing that would indicate large-scale protests in New York or elsewhere, some high-profile Trump supporters are planning to travel to New York. “Please know that your safety is our top priority,” Bragg wrote in an email to staff last month first reported by POLITICO. In a memo last week, New York City cops were ordered to patrol in uniform and prepare for possible mobilization, according to an internal memo obtained by local news channel PIX11. And on the online forums where the Jan. The New York City Police Department, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and Secret Service are among those making preparations and gauging the risks ahead of Trump’s arraignment Tuesday in Lower Manhattan.