Former American President Donald Trump, arrived in New York yesterday evening where he met his lawyers ahead of today’s historic arraignment on charges he covered up a hush money payment to an adult movie star.
UK’s The Guardian reports that Trump’s private jet landed at LaGuardia airport at 3.27pm ET after a flight of little more than three hours from Florida. It marks the start of what will be an extraordinary 24 hours never before seen in this country.
Trump, the only present or past president in US history to be charged with a crime, will surrender to authorities in Manhattan ahead of Tuesday afternoon’s appearance in New York state court.
The hearing is expected to be brief, and Trump plans to head straight home to Palm Beach and deliver remarks from his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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During the flight north, Jason Miller, a senior Trump’s adviser, tweeted that his 2024 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination was boosted by “a record $7m” in the three days since the indictment was announced.
In only three days since news of the indictment, President @realDonaldTrump <https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>’s campaign has raised a record $7M. #MAGA <https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>- Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) April 3, 2023 <https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1642950787562373121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
“The president views this a challenge he has to take on for the American people,” Miller told CNN in a text message.
Yet the projection that the American public is behind the twice impeached, one-term president is contrasted by a CNN poll released earlier Monday that revealed six in 10 approved of the indictment <https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/03/politics/cnn-poll-trump-indictment/index.html> announced Thursday by Manhattan District’s Attorney Alvin Bragg after a grand jury investigation.
A “few dozen” vocal supporters were gathered, CNN reported, outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, where he will spend the night. At lunchtime, authorities in New York held a press conference to announce security arrangements that include road closures and more than 35,000 NYPD officers on duty.
The city’s mayor, Eric Adams, had a specific warning for Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vocal Trump supporter who said she would join fellow republicans at a protest event. (The Varsity)
By Dalhatu Liman, with agency report
