Trump’s agenda in court Tuesday: police file and readout of charges

Donald Trump plans to appear at 2:15 p.m. (8:15 p.m. in Spain) next Tuesday in Manhattan Criminal Court to hear a statement of the charges in person —still under brief secrecy— payable in the process 130 thousand dollars porn actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about a sexual affair, through a fraud operation on the accounts of the Trump Organization, during the 2016 presidential campaign.

He is expected to leave his Mar-a-Lago mansion for New York on the same day, on a private plane and always under the protection of the Secret Service, like all former presidents. It is still not clear what Trump’s arrival in court will be like, as negotiations are expected between Alvin Bragg’s team of prosecutors and his lawyers. It was not known whether he would enter through a private entrance or walk down Central Street in front of the cameras and his faithful. What one of his lawyers has already clarified is that They won’t go in handcuffed.

Either way, Trump must go through the usual procedure for all defendants: fingerprinting, videotaping and reading his rights. Immediately after that, you will wait in the prosecutor’s office, not in a cell, for the moment of appearing before the judge, Juan Manuel Merchanwhere he will plead not guilty. The judge will then decide whether a bond or restrictions should be imposed. Under New York law, as a minor charge and without violence, you are very unlikely to get bail, let alone jail time.

media circus

His attorney, Susan R. Necheles, confirmed an appearance before a judge Tuesday in what she called a “voluntary surrender.”

The calmness with which the president’s legal team approaches the session in front of the court is in radical contrast to the atmosphere that the campaign team, again a candidate for the White House, expects outside the courtroom. “It’s going to be like OJ Simpson, but on steroids,” indicated the adviser to the tycoon that Political related to the media circus surrounding the trial of an American football star for the murder of his ex-wife.