Trump lands in New York, arraignment Tuesday
- Trump journey Monday to New York, the place he’ll keep in Trump Tower.
- Trump is ready to be arraigned Tuesday on the primary prison prices in opposition to an ex-president.
- Authorized specialists warn in opposition to criticizing decide forward of trial.
Donald Trump arrived in New York Monday afternoon, in anticipation of his arraignment Tuesday because the first former president ever charged criminally.
Trump introduced he’ll converse at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday from Mar-a-Lago, an opportunity to make his case within the courtroom of public opinion in addition to within the 2024 presidential race. He bought one other rival Sunday when former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared his candidacy.
Trump is expected to have his mug shot and fingerprints taken, have the formal prices learn after which plead not responsible “loudly and proudly,” his lawyer Joe Tacopina advised CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. However the particulars haven’t been nailed down as a result of the Secret Service will accompany Trump, he stated.
Extra:Lawyers for Donald Trump, Michael Cohen square off in fight for credibility in criminal case
Witnesses earlier than the grand jury have described hush-money funds Trump directed former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to make to silence two girls who claimed to have had sex with Trump before the 2016 election.
Legal experts expect a combination of misdemeanor charges alleging falsification of business records about the payments, combined with a felony such as a campaign finance violation. But Trump has denied wrongdoing and Tacopina said there is no documentation of false business records.
Here is what we expect in the case to start the week:
Trump surging past DeSantis post-indictment: poll
Donald Trump’s criminal charges don’t appear to have hurt his chances at winning the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll released Monday shows the former president ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 26 percentage points with a commanding 57% to 31% lead. The last survey had Trump leading DeSantis by 8 percentage points.
The survey of 1,089 voters was conducted a day after a New York grand jury indicted Trump, and shows 54% of Republicans and GOP leaners want Trump to be the nominee. About 33% of GOP voters want “someone else.”
Overall, 42% of Americans said they approve of Trump being indicted. Another 39% say they disapprove, and 19% say they’re not sure.
— Phillip M. Bailey
Trump arrives in New York ahead of arraignment
Donald Trump landed at La Guardia airport in New York about 3:27 p.m. after flying up from his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago for his arraignment set for Tuesday.
Trump’s motorcade from Mar-a-Lago to Palm Beach International Airport rolled along streets lined with people taking pictures and waving U.S. flags.
Cable networks including CNN and MSNBC covered the landing live.
– Bart Jansen
Trump adds a lawyer to his defense team
Donald Trump expanded his legal team a day before his scheduled arraignment in New York City.
Todd Blanche, an experience white collar defense lawyer from New York, will join Trump’s existing legal team, his campaign said.
Blanche’s past clients include Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who in 2019 faced state charges that included falsifying business records. A judge dismissed those charges.
– David Jackson
New York mayor warns Trump protesters, Marjorie Taylor Green to ‘control yourselves’
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday urged potential protesters for Donald Trump’s arraignment – he singled out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. – to be on their best behavior and threatened anyone who becomes violent with arrest.
“While there may be some rabble-rousers thinking about coming to our city tomorrow, our message is clear and simple: control yourselves,” Adams said. “New York is our home, not a playground for your misplaced anger.”
He said there were no specific threats. But people like Greene, “who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech,” are expected to visit the city. New York Young Republicans announced she would attend a noon rally Tuesday at Collect Pond Park.
“While you are in town, be on your best behavior,” Adams said.
– Bart Jansen
Stormy Daniels getting death threats since Trump indictment, she says
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels says she is “kind of numb” now that the hush-money investigation stemming from her alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006 has led to his criminal indictment – and that it has prompted death threats against her.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, told the Times UK that the charges by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office amount to a vindication of her efforts to hold the former president accountable. But in her first interview since Trump’s indictment last Thursday, she said the as-yet-unspecific charges have put her in more personal danger than ever before.
“The first time it was like gold digger, slut, whore. You know, liar, whatever and this time it’s like, ‘I’m gonna murder you,’ “ she said of the threatening messages she has been getting.
– Josh Meyer
Trump’s 757 takes flight for New York
Donald Trump’s distinctive Boeing 757, which he calls Trump Force One with his name on the side and a U.S. flag on the tail, took off from Palm Beach International Airport about 1 p.m. Monday en route to New York.
Trump is heading back to New York for his scheduled arraignment Tuesday. He faces unspecified charges after he was indicted Thursday.
Cable networks such as CNN, Fox News and MSNBC covered the departure live.
— Bart Jansen
Trump departs Mar-a-Lago bound for New York
People lined the Florida streets along Trump’s route, taking video with their phones and waving U.S. flags, as his motorcade of black SUVs drove past on the way to the Palm Beach airport.
In New York, a few people stood outside Trump Tower, where the former president plans to spend the night before his scheduled arraignment Tuesday.
Brent Dey, 55, a videographer from Atlanta, posed on the crosswalk near Trump Tower holding a copy of the New York Times’ Friday edition, with the headline “Trump Indicted,” as his wife took his photo.
Dey and his family arrived Saturday to see Broadway shows and he wanted to commemorate the historic nature of Trump’s indictment.
“We need to return back to debates about policy, and debates about how the differing parties view moving this country ahead,” he said. “Not making ourselves a cult of personality around one person.”
— Eduardo Cuevas and Bart Jansen
Lawyers for Trump, Cohen each bank on credibility in arguing charges
Tacopina and Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, foreshadowed the fight over credibility Sunday in any eventual trial.
Tacopina called Cohen a convicted liar who “is constitutionally incapable of telling the same story the same way twice.” Tacopina said there is no documentation of Trump falsifying business records, the central charges anticipated in the indictment, which remains under seal.
“I know there is no such evidence,” Tacopina said. “Michael Cohen is a pathological, convicted liar.”
Davis said Cohen and other witnesses have provided testimony and documentation. Cohen has already been imprisoned in part because he arranged for $280,000 in hush payments to Stormy Daniels, a porn actress, and Karen McDougal, a Playboy model.
“Michael Cohen submitted a whole lot of documentation,” Davis stated. “There are different paperwork from different folks and different testimony from different folks.”
Trump lawyer expects ‘painless and stylish’ arraignment
Tacopina stated he is participated in a whole lot of arraignments however by no means had the Secret Service concerned earlier than. He would not anticipate to make detailed authorized arguments as a result of the costs shall be freshly unveiled.
“Hopefully this shall be as painless and stylish as doable,” Tacopina stated.
Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg will clarify the costs intimately, however authorized specialists do not anticipate all the proof behind the costs to be revealed.
Trump has criticized the decide, Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case in opposition to the Trump Group. However Tacopina stated he had no drawback with Merchan.
“I’ve no purpose to consider the decide is biased,” Tacopina stated.
Cyrus Vance Jr., the previous Manhattan district lawyer, advised NBC’s “Meet the Press” the decide would search agency management over the case.
“He’s going to need to set a agency trial date. He’s going to need to preserve agency management over all of the events,” Vance stated. That might find yourself in some flare-ups between the events and the courtroom.
Trump to talk Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago
Trump’s marketing campaign introduced he would ship remarks Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. at Mar-a-Lago.
He has been posting on his social media platform, Fact Social, his criticism of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and what he calls a politically motivated prosecution. However the speech shall be an opportunity for voters – and potential jurors – to listen to his response to the costs.
Vance anticipated Cohen to be “attacked closely.” However Vance warned in opposition to allegedly breaking every other legal guidelines, akin to obstruction of governmental administration, which may strengthen a case some observers take into account “not the strongest.”
“It will probably change the jury’s thoughts concerning the severity of the case they’re taking a look at,” Vance stated.