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Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to criminal charges stemming from secret money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election in a historic court hearing in New York on Tuesday.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges, which include allegedly conspiring to keep a former porn star quiet during the tycoon’s 2016 re-election campaign and secret money paid to a former porn star.
Trump, 76, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury last week over a 2016 covert payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, although specific charges have not yet been disclosed. Trump has maintained that he is innocent and is due to plead not guilty.
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Trump said, “When we are going through the worst period in American history, I can say that at least for the moment I am in a very good mood.”
Trump alleges, “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is a George Soros-backed prosecutor.”
“This bogus case was only brought to interfere in the upcoming 2024 election and should be dropped immediately,” Trump said.
Trump said, “It’s not the right thing to do. The world is already laughing at us – for things like our open borders, leaving millions of pieces of equipment in Afghanistan.”
Trump said, “We have to save our country. Never thought something like this could happen in America.”
“The only crime I have committed is to fearlessly defend my country from those who want to destroy it.”
Former US President Donald Trump will address supporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida shortly.
CNN reported that the Manhattan court of New York has summoned former United States President Donald Trump for the next in-person hearing on December 4.
Trump, who pleaded not guilty to the 34 criminal charges against him, left the courtroom without making any statement.
Breaking!!! The 9th Circuit just awarded Trump $121,962.56 in attorney fees from Stormy Daniels. The order has just been issued. This is in addition to the nearly $500k he already owes her.
LOL glad she’s out there saying her t-shirt sales are booming, she’ll be able to pay Trump!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 4, 2023
Former US President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from three pre-election hush-money scandals, prosecutors said Tuesday.
“Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records during the 2016 presidential election to conceal criminal conduct that concealed harmful information from the voting public,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. Did.”
Bragg said Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about a 2006 sexual encounter.
Bragg said the $30,000 was paid through an intermediary to a former Trump Tower doorman who was claiming Trump had fathered a child.
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Former US president Donald Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from three pre-election hush-money cases, prosecutors said Tuesday.
“Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
Donald Trump was seen Tuesday leaving a New York court where he pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal counts stemming from hush-money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election.
Trump was seen exiting the building and making his way to a waiting motorcade, just over two hours after arriving at the Manhattan court complex for the historic hearing.
Trump Pleads Not Guilty To Criminal Charges In Hush Money Case
Donald Trump, the former president and front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after an investigation into hush money paid to a porn star.
Former US President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team in a Manhattan court during his arraignment
Donald Trump entered a historic court hearing in New York Tuesday after becoming the first American president to be arrested on criminal charges, in extraordinary scenes playing out amid tight security and a global media frenzy.
With a stern glare, Trump was seen making his way into the courtroom in Manhattan without saying a word to waiting press, although he was expected to speak at length later including at a campaign-style event at his Florida estate.
In a spectacle relayed on live television — with rival protesters rallying outside — the hearing marks a watershed moment for the US criminal and political system, with the potential to upend the 2024 White House race in which Trump is currently the leading Republican nominee.
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As Donald Trump faced criminal charges on Tuesday, bars in the capital Washington prepared special cocktails for customers eager to drink to the former Republican president’s misfortune.
“When it arraigns, we pour $5 drafts,” the Midlands Beer Garden said in its promotion, knocking beer and mezcal prices down to $5, a modest sum in the pricey city, which votes strongly Democratic.
On its Instagram account, the bar displayed a photoshopped image of Trump in an orange prison jumpsuit.
The 76-year-old real estate mogul arrived at a New York court to plead not guilty to charges in connection with hush money paid to onetime porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump has said he is innocent and is due to plead not guilty.
“Today (Tuesday) is the day that a ruling political party ARRESTS its leading opponent for having committed NO CRIME,” Trump, who flew to New York from his Florida home on Monday, said in a fundraising email sent out on Tuesday morning.
On social media, Trump ahead of the arraignment renewed his attacks on Justice Juan Merchan, the judge in the case who last year also presided over a trial in which Trump’s real estate company was convicted of tax fraud.
Trump supporters at park across from the Manhattan courthouse
Hundreds of Trump supporters, at a park across from the Manhattan courthouse, cheered and blew whistles, outnumbering his detractors. The Trump critics held signs including one of Trump dressed in a striped jail uniform behind bars and another that read, “Lock Him Up.”
Former US President Donald Trump is in police custody at the Manhattan district attorney’s office on Tuesday ahead of his arraignment on history-making criminal charges related to paying hush money to a porn star before the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence.
Trump, who arrived at a specially secured Manhattan courthouse in an eight-car motorcade, is expected to be fingerprinted and processed. Trump’s mug shot may be taken.
“Trump is in police custody at the Manhattan district attorney’s office ahead of his arraignment in court,” CNN reported.
Donald Trump turned himself in Tuesday for a historic New York court hearing held amid tight security and a global media frenzy, as the Republican billionaire becomes the first American president in history to face criminal charges.
In a spectacle playing out on live television – with rival protesters rallying outside — the hearing marks a watershed moment for the US criminal and political system, with the potential to upend the 2024 White House race in which Trump is currently the presumptive Republican nominee.
Donald Trump said Tuesday it was “surreal” to be appearing in court, as he posted live updates on social media while being driven to face criminal charges in Manhattan.
“Heading to Lower Manhattan, the Courthouse. Seems so SURREAL – WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. Can’t believe this is happening in America,” he posted on his Truth Social platform.
Trump in court to face charges
Trump in court to face charges in hush money case
Donald Trump left his New York skyscraper amid tight security Tuesday to turn himself in for a historic court appearance on criminal charges that threaten to upend the 2024 White House race.
His motorcade departed Trump Tower to drive the six-mile (10-kilometer) journey to the courthouse in Manhattan with police lining the streets and helicopters buzzing overhead.
Many Republicans in the US Congress have responded to Donald Trump’s looming arraignment by characterizing the criminal justice system as corrupt, in accusations that parallel their earlier broadsides against the nation’s elections after the former president’s 2020 defeat.
Trump and his allies in the House of Representatives and Senate have used rhetoric that echoed his false claims of widespread election fraud in the build-up to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
Trump flew to New York City in his Boeing 757 aircraft from his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday and arrived at the La Guardia airport. His motorcade then made its way to the Trump Tower on 5th Avenue in Manhattan where he stayed overnight. Streets around the high-end Trump Tower have been cordoned off, with heavy police presence in and around the area.
The former President waved at scores of his supporters as he came out from the SUV and was escorted immediately inside the building.
After his court appearance, Trump will immediately fly back to Florida where he will deliver remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in the evening.
Donald Trump, the former U.S. president and front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, will appear in court on Tuesday to be fingerprinted, photographed and formally charged in a watershed moment ahead of next year’s presidential election.
Although Trump has drawn tens of thousands of fervent supporters to rallies across the country, it was unclear how many would travel to his heavily Democratic home town, where automobile travel is difficult.
A former lawyer for Donald Trump who once said he would do anything to protect the former U.S. president is now poised to serve as a key witness in the criminal trial of his longtime boss.
Michael Cohen, who became a top executive at Trump’s real estate company and then his personal lawyer, testified twice before the Manhattan grand jury that voted on Thursday to indict Trump following an investigation into a hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Cohen has said that Trump directed him to pay Daniels $130,000 to keep her from speaking about a sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump in 2006, meaning he will likely be a prominent witness if the case goes to trial.
Donald Trump was set Tuesday to plead not guilty to criminal charges in a New York courtroom in an unprecedented case that threatens to upend the 2024 White House race.
Trump is the first sitting or former American president to be criminally indicted — a historic development that has propelled the United States into uncharted political waters.
Amid tight security in Manhattan — and a global media frenzy — the 76-year-old will learn at his arraignment precisely what charges he faces over hush money paid to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election that brought him to power.
The 76-year-old Trump remains a front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, though the still sealed charges that will be unveiled Tuesday potentially threaten to throw his viability as a candidate into question.
He is also using the case to energize his support base and raise millions of dollars for his bid to reclaim the White House next year.
Trump was set to arrive early afternoon to face charges likely related to alleged campaign finance violations over his hush payments to a porn star while running for his first presidential term.
Dozens of Donald Trump supporters demonstrated outside the courthouse where the former president is due to be arraigned on criminal charges Tuesday, as a handful of vocal counterprotestors shouted an anti-fascist message.
Members of the New York Police Department community affairs division stepped in to the fray as the pro-Trump side — many sporting familiar “MAGA” hats and attire emblazoned with the American flag — yelled slurs at their opposition.
Trump arraignment likely to be brief
The arraignment, where Trump will be in court to hear charges and have a chance to enter a plea, was planned for 2:15 p.m. (1815 GMT) on Tuesday and was likely to be brief. “It won’t be a long day in court,” Joseph Tacopina, one of Trump’s lawyers, said on ABC.
