It is unknown if the judge will issue a ‘gag’ order for the ex-President to abide by….
“Donald Trump will be placed under arrest on Tuesday and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records,” Yahoo News reports.
“A New York City Police arrest report summarizing the charges against Trump will then be prepared and entered into the court system before he is led into a courtroom to be formally arraigned on the charges, none of which are misdemeanors.”
“But Trump will not be put in handcuffs, placed in a jail cell or subjected to a mug shot — typical procedures even for white collar defendants until a judge has weighed in on pretrial conditions.”
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“A lone protester stood outside Manhattan’s courthouse on Monday afternoon, a thin showing in anticipation of former President Donald Trump’s scheduled arraignment on Tuesday,” Rolling Stone reports.
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“Former President Donald Trump has hired a top white-collar criminal defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, Todd Blanche, as his lead counsel to handle the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal indictment of the former president,” Politico reports.
“Blanche, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, has previously represented Trump ally Paul Manafort as well as Igor Fruman, a onetime associate of Rudy Giuliani who pleaded guilty in a campaign finance case brought by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office.”
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A law enforcement official tells Rolling Stone that Donald Trump “was offered a chance to surrender quietly and be arraigned over Zoom. Instead, Trump opted for a midday, high-profile booking at the Manhattan courthouse.”
Said the official: “He wanted a perp walk, he wanted daylight hours. He wants to get out of the vehicle and walk up the stairs. This is a nightmare for Secret Service, but they can only strongly suggest — not order — that Trump enter through the secure tunnels. Trump wants to greet the crowd. This should be a surprise to no one — especially not his detail.”
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A new Morning Consult poll finds Donald Trump is backed by 55% of potential Republican primary voters, up 3 percentage points from last Wednesday, the day before news broke that a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict him.
It gives him a 29-percentage-point lead over his closest polling potential rival, Gov. Ron DeSantis — marking his second-best advantage since tracking began in December.
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Fact Check: Photos of Donald Trump Being Arrested Are Fake
Images are circulating online that purport to show the arrest of former President Donald Trump by New York police officers. The images are not authentic. They were produced using Midjourney, an artificial text-to-image generator that has the capacity to render photo-realistic images based on a written verbal description.
The images have caught fire on social media amid news that Trump could be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on charges relating to an alleged hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump himself has recently predicted that he would be arrested on these charges, although the date on which he said he expected to be taken into custody has come and gone.
The fake images were originally generated by Eliot Higgins, the founder and creative director of Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group….
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“News outlets will not be allowed to broadcast former President Donald Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday in a Manhattan state court, a judge said Monday night,” CNNreports.
“Five still photographers will be allowed to take pictures of Trump and the courtroom before the hearing begins, however.”