With our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten
After leaving Mar-a Lago, Donald Trump will spend the night in his Trump Tower apartment on Fifth Avenue this Monday evening, April 3. The entrance to the tower is already a real bunker, and the whole building is under Secret Service protection. Tomorrow, Donald Trump will make the 6.5 km to court in an official motorcade. And different security services had to coordinate: the New York police (NYPD), the officers of the court, the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and the secret services. Because the authorities expect demonstrators around the court.
Trump negotiated not to be handcuffed
Once he walks through the courthouse doors, Donald Trump will head straight to the fifteenth floor to face the judge. We will tell him the many charges, there would be at least thirty. We will then register his fingerprints, but he negotiated not to be handcuffed. We do not yet know, however, whether we will take his mugshot, the famous mugshot defendants in the United States. And then, several media asked the judge to exceptionally authorize the cameras in the courtroom; we will see tomorrow if it has been accepted. In any case, Donald Trump will not speak in New York: he plans to return to Florida very quickly, once he has pleaded “not guilty” before the New York judge. And he should speak tomorrow night from his private club.
« Let the process take its course »
According to the American media, the file should be entrusted to judge Juan Merchan, who supervised in 2022 the trial for tax evasion of the Trump Organization. This magistrate hate me “, wrote Donald Trump on Friday. But will the former president ask for another judge? CNN posed the question to Donald Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina: We will take the indictment, evaluate all of our legal options, and pursue each one with precision. This is a case of political persecution. If he hadn’t been running for president, he wouldn’t have been charged. But, you know, I have no problem with this judge. »
And Joe Tacopina to continue: My client has the right to have a problem with everything. He was politically persecuted. He loses his temper because he is the victim. I have no reason to believe that the judge will be biased. I did not have the opportunity to discuss it with my client. I think we have to let the procedure take its course. »
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