Apr 04, 2023, 1:09 PM EDT
Trump en route to courthouse
Former President Donald Trump has left Trump Tower and is now in a motorcade to a lower Manhattan courthouse to be arraigned.
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Here's how the news developed. All times Eastern.
Apr 04, 2023, 12:49 PM EDT
George Santos, Marjorie Taylor Greene outside courthouse
Protesters from both sides are gathering outside at Collect Pond Park, some with flags reading “Trump or Death.” Hundreds of people are inside the barricaded park, with pro-Trump supporters outnumbering the anti-Trump protesters and competing voices trading barbs and shouts.
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Republican Reps. George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene are among the 50 to 60 Trump supporters at the scene.
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Greene spoke outside the courthouse calling Trump’s indictment “election interference.”
She accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of being a “tool for Democrats” to “hijack the 2024 presidential election.”
“Every single American should be concerned. They're coming after President Trump today, they will come after you tomorrow. President Trump did nothing wrong,” she said.
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., who was also outside the courthouse, pushed back, shouting at Greene, "She should not be here."
The streets surrounding the New York Criminal Court are largely blocked off. A robust police presence is busily shepherding onlookers past a row of television cameras.
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Greene and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., plan to attend Trump's Tuesday night speech at Mar-a-Lago, aides told ABC News.
-ABC News' Lucien Bruggeman, Lauren Peller, Will Steakin and Jay O’Brien
Apr 04, 2023, 12:13 PM EDT
Trump spends morning working phones, speaking to aides and allies: Sources
Former President Donald Trump spent Monday night and Tuesday morning huddled with his legal team at Trump Tower preparing for his arraignment, sources told ABC News.
Trump was up early Tuesday morning working the phones and speaking to aides and allies ahead of his Tuesday afternoon arraignment, sources said.
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Trump is expected to enter his not guilty plea himself, not through his lawyers, sources said. Trump's legal team has still not seen the indictment or been informed of the charges, according to sources, who told ABC News the legal team expects to see it just minutes before the arraignment begins.
One person described Trump as "upbeat" and "relatively excited." Another person said Trump is "not angry" and is resigned to the fact that this day has finally come.
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-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and John Santucci
Apr 04, 2023, 11:21 AM EDT
Trump slams judge ahead of arraignment
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at the judge expected to preside over his arraignment in a Tuesday morning post on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Trump attacked the judge and his family, without naming them, claiming they are known Trump haters, and claiming a potential trial would not be fair.
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The former president has repeatedly gone after the judge and the Manhattan district attorney on social media in the days leading up to Tuesday's arraignment.
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-ABC News' Will Steakin
