Donald Trump heads to courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday for the 1st-ever felony arraignment of a previous U.S. president.
Trump flew to New York on Monday from his Florida residence to prepare to surrender forward of the hearing.
He was indicted Thursday on rates linked to a hush funds payment his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen made to previous grownup movie star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower, immediately after his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury subsequent a probe into hush income paid out to porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York Town, April 3, 2023.
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Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg’s office experienced not unsealed a grand jury indictment, which has information of the rates against Trump, by Tuesday morning.
Trump is owing to show up prior to performing New York Supreme Court docket Justice Juan Merchan at 2:15 p.m. ET. Information shops have pushed for the decide to allow camera access for the duration of the listening to, an work Trump’s legal professionals have opposed.
Bragg will maintain a news conference following the arraignment. The ex-president, in the meantime, designs to travel again to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida just after the hearing and deliver remarks there.
Trump denies the declare by Daniels, whose specified title is Stephanie Clifford, that she experienced intercourse with him 1 time in 2006. He also denies wrongdoing linked to the $130,000 payment Cohen gave her to hold peaceful about the alleged tryst.