Late last week, we reported that former US president Donald J. Trump’s arraignment has been scheduled for Tuesdays of this week, after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, his investigators and prosecutors, and the grand jury made history following the jury’s monumental vote to indict the 45 president of the United States. This served as the first time in American history that a current or former US president has ever been charged with a crime.
Reporting indicated that the scandal-ridden, disgraced former president intends to enter a plea of not guilty to the charges lodged against him, relating to the infamous 2016, 6-figure hush money payments made to adult film star and former Trump affair partner, Stormy Daniels, just mere weeks ahead of the 2016 presidential election that Donald Trump went on to win. According to evidence acquired through the investigation, Trump ordered his then-personal attorney and self-described “fixer,” Michael Cohen, to make the $130,000 payment to Daniels in an effort to buy the porn star’s silence ahead of the election. Trump allegedly promised to reimburse the attorney for the 6 figure payment made to Daniels. Cohen has since developed into a key, star witness in the Manhattan District Attorney’s notorious hush money investigation.
Yesterday afternoon, we reported on the bombshell news that disgraced, scandal-ridden former President Donald Trump had officially departed his Mar-a-Lago golf resort turned post-White House home in Palm Beach, headed to Manhattan, New York, where he would spend the night in Trump Tower, and face his formal, historical arraignment the next day. Reports indicated that Melania did not accompany her husband to New York.
Trump and his team have desperately attempted to act as though they’re not actually all that worried about the unprecedented legal proceedings soon to go down against a former US president. But breaking news first reported on by CNN’s Paula Reid tells a much different story of how Trumpworld is reacting behind closed doors.
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According to Reid, Donald Trump’s legal team has desperately begged New York Judge Juan Merchan to ban cameras in the courtroom for their client’s historical arraignment, citing a “circus-like atmosphere.”
The CNN Senior Legal Affairs Correspondent broke the news in a tweet, reading, “JUST IN: Trump team tells judge to deny media request to have cameras in court for historic arraignment, arguing it ‘will create a circus-like atmosphere…raises unique security concern and is inconsistent with Trump’s presumption of innocence.'”
JUST IN: Trump team tells judge to deny media request to have cameras in court for historic arraignment, arguing it “will create a circus like atmosphere…raises unique security concern and is inconsistent with Trump’s presumption of innocence.”
— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCNN) April 3, 2023
Legal experts and analysts have pushed back against banning cameras in the courtroom during Donald Trump’s arraignment, as they feel that footage of the historical proceedings is vital, to ensure that the disgraced, corrupt ex-president can’t lie to the American public about what happened in the courtroom.
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