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Donald Trump will take America through yet another grave and unprecedented national drama this week when he becomes the first ex-president to appear in ...

DeSantis, who has yet to declare a run, is running a shadow campaign rooted in the premise that he could offer Trump-style policies without the chaos or distractions of the ex-president. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina said the ex-president’s team would loudly and proudly declare he is not guilty and signaled an attempt to try to prevent the case ever from reaching trial. CNN has reported that Trump was caught off guard by the grand jury’s decision to indict him, according to a person who spoke directly with him. But the complexities of arraigning a former president under close Secret Service protection means that this is no ordinary case – even if justice suggests Trump should be treated like any other citizen. Trump may have been indicted for infringing laws in New York, but since the charges haven’t been made public, it is impossible to assess his claims. In the run-up to Tuesday’s appearance, Trump’s legal team gave a preview of a robust defense that will unfold against a backdrop of a furious political campaign. While Trump’s characteristically aggressive attacks on Bragg, the judge in the case, and the Biden Justice Department might be effective in a political context, there’s no guarantee they’ll work in court. According to fundraising numbers that his campaign is touting, Trump is getting a political boost from the attention. But Trump, using his bond with his most loyal supporters, is claiming the prosecution is a case of naked political persecution from District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, that’s designed to thwart the possibility of a presidential comeback. Trump plans to make a make a speech when he gets back to Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night in which he will seek to leverage political advantage out of a perilous, personal legal crisis. At the same time, it is ultimately Trump’s norm-busting behavior that pushed the country to this somber moment. For many Americans who disdain Trump and his riotous single term, the case could be a sign that, finally, he is being called to account for his rule-crushing behavior and that everyone – even former presidents – are equal under the law.

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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.

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 landed at LaGuardia Airport and a motorcade took him to Trump Tower.

[CLICK HERE](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/the-point-lee-zeldin-former-candidate-for-governor-and-new-york-gop-chair-discuss-former-pres-donald-trumps-indictment/) for their full interviews. [CLICK HERE](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-faces-felony-charge-source-says/) for the latest on the investigation. Reports show he will be joined by Florida supporters, as he tries to project an image of strength and defiance, turning the charges into a political asset. Reports show he's raised more than $5 million and logged more than 16,000 volunteer sign-ups since the indictment. We're hearing a possibility being considered is inside Trump Tower -- the site of his escalator used when he announced his bid for the 2016 presidential nomination. "They're going to have a detail of uniformed police officers all around the perimeter of the courthouse and nearby blocks. He will then be escorted by a motorcade into Trump Tower, where it's possible he may speak to the press. Sources say the NYPD and Secret Service have already choreographed the court appearance, and Trump will be surrounded by agents the entire time. They also said there will be street closures near the courts in Lower Manhattan and elsewhere around the city. "New York City is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger." [Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/tag/keechant-sewell/) said the department prepared for the former president's arrival for weeks. But the indictment is still sealed.

Donald Trump is to appear before a judge in New York on Tuesday to face charges over a hush-money payment to a porn star.

Nothing in the Constitution prevents someone from running for the nation's highest office while facing charges. [Georgia](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/georgia/) is investigating his efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election in the southern state. Trump has no criminal record and whether he would be sentenced to prison in the event of a conviction remains to be seen. "President Trump will not take a plea deal in this case," Tacopina told NBC's Today show. There's no crime." Trump is expected to be fingerprinted and may also have a mug shot taken on Tuesday at a Manhattan courthouse, but Joe Tacopina, one of Trump's lawyers, said the former president would not be placed in handcuffs.

An extraordinary moment in U.S. history is scheduled to unfold in a New York City courthouse Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump will surrender in ...

The former president and his aides are embracing the media circus. Those investigations concern efforts to undo the 2020 election results as well as the possible mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The public fascination with the case was evident Monday as national television carried live images of Trump’s motorcade from his Mar-a-Lago club to his red, white and blue Boeing 757. Top Republicans, including some of Trump’s potential rivals in next year’s GOP presidential primary, have decried the case against him. Capitol in a failed bid to halt the congressional certification of President Joe Biden’s win. Still, they asked the judge in a Monday filing to ban photo and video coverage of the arraignment. This is when Trump and his defense lawyers will get their first glimpse of the precise allegations against him. we’ll get through this and win the election.” Both say they had sexual encounters with the married Trump years before he got into politics. House but was never convicted in the U.S. “He will be a gentleman,” McLaughlin said. Trump, who was impeached twice by the U.S.

And less than 24 hours before the former president is set to be arraigned on criminal charges, a Manhattan judge mostly agreed. New York Supreme Court Judge ...

With charges expected in the coming weeks, he could face racketeering and conspiracy charges in Georgia out of an alleged attempt to directly overturn his 2020 loss to Conversely, Merchan will permit TV cameras to film in the hallway outside his courtroom to film as Trump and his entourage arrive and leave. Of course, while Trump didn’t want cameras to capture him at the defendant’s table, the past and current candidate has been relentlessly slamming the judge, the D.A. Also, details on the still-sealed indictment, which is said to run to over 30 charges, will provide a fuller sense of the greater implications of this case. “That this indictment involves a matter of monumental significance cannot possibly be disputed,” the judge wrote in his ruling. And less than 24 hours before the former president is set to be arraigned on criminal charges, a Manhattan judge mostly agreed.

If we can agree that letting the former president cry it out while we all get on with our lives is the real play here, then what better time to make a molehill ...

That should be the real focus of our attention, but instead we are still training our cameras on the former president’s motorcade as he departs his Florida home for his New York one on the eve of his indictment. [At any rate, 60 percent of Americans approve of the indictment](https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/politics/cnn-poll-trump-indictment/index.html), and according to new polling, his favorability and unfavorability numbers haven’t actually changed much since it happened. [mindless horserace coverage](https://www.axios.com/2023/04/02/trump-indictment-republican-support) about whether the prospect of criminal accountability is good for his electoral chances or bad for it, which we are certainly doing already, even before knowing the true seriousness of the crimes for which he is being indicted. As [Aymann Ismail](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/donald-trump-arrest-indictment-charges-new-york-protests.html) reported Monday, it’s awfully hard to predict the actions of uncoordinated angry extremists, but [experts don’t see a lot of the markers](https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/politics/threat-monitoring-trump/index.html) of a coordinated insurrection campaign, despite [TV threats-slash-demands that they occur](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/donald-trump-arrest-indictment-charges-new-york-protests.html). In other words, America at large seems increasingly apt to let the former president cry it out, for longer and longer intervals, more and more frequently, regardless of how loud the few sad lingering members of his crowd shout about fairness (mostly on the internet). They are all the same.) We’re still just barely over the halfway point of the current presidency—indeed, Trump’s [early announcement that he is running for president again](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/trump-presidential-announcement-trial-anyway.html) might be mostly for self-protective purposes anyway. If we can agree that letting the former president cry it out while we all get on with our lives is the real play here, then what better time to make a molehill out of a molehill, than his appearance in New York City. [Ferber’s suggested steps are fairly straightforward](https://www.whattoexpect.com/first-year/sleep/ferber-method-sleep-training/): you put the baby in its crib; you say goodnight kindly; you leave it to cry itself out; you let it cry a bit longer each day before going in to reassure it. 6 sized-crowds to his side anymore](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/donald-trump-arrest-indictment-charges-new-york-protests.html). Asked to travel through corporeal time, in their actual bodies, to the streets of New York, where they might end up being deemed legally responsible for their actions, most of the zeal falls away. Lies about the [size of crowds at Trump events](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/trump-administration-ending-lying-crowd-size-protest-march.html) have been a [staple of his public life](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/17/20809989/donald-trump-obsession-crowd-sizes-explained-new-hampshire-rally-2020) ever since, including at [last week’s rally in Waco](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-waco-rally-crowd-size-smaller-1790873), Texas. [first official big lies in office was about the size of the crowds at his inauguration](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/the-absurdity-of-donald-trumps-lies/579622/).