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Donald Trump's calls for mass protests fell flat ahead of his NYC arraignment on Tuesday. By noon, more than 100 Trump backers had descended upon a park outside a Manhattan courthouse. By noon, more than 100 backers of the indicted ex-president had descended upon a park outside of the lower Manhattan courthouse where Trump will be arraigned. Overall, the pro-Trump crowd paled in comparison to the demonstrations and massive protests Trump called for before he was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury last week. Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also delivered a roughly 10-minute-long speech to a swarm of press and Trump backers at a park rally.

☆ Trump falsified business records to 'cover up crimes' related to 2016 election, Manhattan DA says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Donald Trump falsified business records in order to "cover up crimes" related to the 2016 presidential election, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Tuesday after the ex-president's historic arrest and arraignment. Trump less than two hours earlier pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from Bragg's probe centering on hush money payments made to two women ahead of the 2016 election. The evidence will show he did so to cover up crimes related to the 2016 election," Bragg said. The alleged scheme to conceal payments from the public "violated New York election law, which makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means," the DA said. "These are felony crimes in New York state, no matter who you are.

☆ Read the indictment against Donald Trump, details of payments to porn star, Playboy model
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

watch nowFormer President Donald Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a scheme that directed hush money payments to two women before the 2016 presidential election. The 16-page indictment against Trump was unsealed Tuesday as he became the first former U.S. president ever to be arraigned on criminal charges. Follow CNBC.com's live coverage of former President Donald Trump's surrender and arraignment at the Manhattan criminal courthouse. Falsifying business records normally is a misdemeanor but can become a felony if done to cover up another crime. The checks first were issued by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, while later ones came from Trump's bank account, prosecutors said.

☆ Lawyer says Trump didn't intend to threaten prosecutor with social media post: 'That is a picture of him showing off an American-made bat'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Charles R. Davis | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Donald Trump will not be prevented from discussing the New York case against him. Speaking to reporters, Joe Tacopina, an attorney for Trump, acknowledged that Judge Juan M. Merchan had discussed the former president's use of social media. On his own social network, Truth Social, Trump had posted a news story, for example, that showed him wielding a baseball bat next to a photo of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. "That is a picture of him showing off an American-made bat," he said. Todd Blanche, another Trump attorney, told reporters that Merchan had asked all parties to be respectful and not use language "that is inappropriate."

☆ Trump's indictment doesn't just depend on Michael Cohen, involves more than one paid-off woman, and allegedly happened when he was president
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Madison Hall | John L. Dorman | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

State attorneys and former prosecutors worried that Trump's indictment would solely revolve around Michael Cohen as a witness. But Trump's indictment depends on more than Cohen — the NY DA alleges Trump paid off another woman, too. Mark Bederow, a former prosecutor, previously told Insider that resting an indictment of this caliber solely on Cohen would be disastrous. "You wouldn't rely on Michael Cohen to tell you the time of day unless you corroborated it with a clock. Like Daniels, prosecutors allege that Trump, Pecker, and Cohen teamed up to silence former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal in June 2016.

☆ 'We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct' -Trump prosecutor
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Politics'We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct' -Trump prosecutorPostedAfter former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday (April 4) said in a press conference, "We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct.”

Trump arrived via motorcade at 100 Centre Street, a towering, 1940s-era building faced in limestone, granite, and decades of grime. It's the DA investigators who "book" Trump, a process that begins with the former president emptying his pockets. Prints are run on anyone arrested in New York, and Trump will be no different. No one will check if Trump fibsThe DA investigators will also take Trump's pedigree information — name, date of birth, address, phone number, that sort of thing. "There's a cell in the processing area in the DA investigators' offices," she said.

Trump wrote on his Truth Social profile shortly after arriving in New York from Florida on Monday, urging supporters to donate to his campaign. The arraignment, where Trump will be in court to hear charges and have a chance to enter a plea, was planned for 2:15 p.m. (1815 GMT) on Tuesday. Citing a single source briefed on Tuesday's arraignment procedures, Yahoo said none of the charges against Trump were misdemeanors. PROTESTS AND POPULARITYPolice over the weekend began erecting barricades near Trump Tower - where Trump arrived on Monday after flying in from Florida - and the Manhattan Criminal Court building, with demonstrations expected at both sites on Tuesday. On the Manhattan case, Trump in 2018 initially disputed knowing anything about the payment to Daniels.

☆ Reactions as former President Donald Trump arraigned in New York City
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

April 4 (Reuters) - Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges. The charges from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg come as Trump seeks the Republican nomination to run again in 2024. REPRESENTATIVE JAMAAL BOWMAN:“Take responsibility, hold yourself accountable, and go away,” Bowman, a Democrat of New York, said when reporters asked if he had a message for Trump. SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER:Schumer, a Democrat of New York, tweeted: "I believe that Donald Trump will have a fair trial that follows the facts and the law. Trump was a president of many firsts — none of which were good for our country.

☆ Trump may be on trial in New York just weeks before the 2024 Iowa caucuses
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump could be on trial just weeks before the closely watched Iowa caucuses. By December, the 2024 GOP presidential race will be nearing its peak in the final stretch before the Iowa caucuses. A final date has not yet been selected, but it's expected the 2024 caucuses will be in early February. Iowa will also be the first time that Trump has been on a ballot since losing the 2020 presidential election. Despite his popularity in Iowa, Trump also narrowly lost the 2016 caucuses to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

☆ Manhattan DA sheds new light on National Enquirer publisher's efforts to boost Trump 2016 campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new details Tuesday about the role the National Enquirer's then-publisher played in boosting former President Donald Trump's winning 2016 campaign. The Trump, AMI and Pecker alliance continued through the 2016 election and the former president's inauguration, according to Bragg's investigation. Outside of the McDougal payment, the tabloid suppressed or published various stories related to Trump or his opponents during the election. The Manhattan DA revealed new examples of how the relationship worked among Pecker, AMI and Trump. AMI purchased the information from the Doorman without fully investigating his claims, but the AMI CEO directed that the deal take place because of his agreement with the Defendant [Trump] and Lawyer A [Cohen]."

☆ Factbox: Details from New York prosecutor's Trump hush-money indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Daniels said she and Trump had a sexual encounter in 2006, the year after he married Melania Knauss, his third wife. Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal campaign-finance charges related to the payments and said he acted at Trump's direction. Pecker made the payment after discussing it with Cohen and Trump, according to the charges, with the understanding that Trump would pay him back. Trump and Cohen discussed repayment in a conversation captured in an audio recording in September 2016 and made plans to do so. Around that time, Pecker connected Cohen with a lawyer for Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump as well.

☆ Hours from his own arraignment, Trump says Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg should 'INDICT HIMSELF'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump said on Monday evening that Alvin Bragg should "INDICT HIMSELF." District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me," Trump wrote on Monday. "Now, if he wants to really clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing and, as District Attorney, INDICT HIMSELF," added Trump. It is also unclear what information Trump was referring to when he wrote on Monday about "various points" and "complete information" being leaked. Representatives for Trump and the Manhattan district attorney's office did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

☆ Trump 'orchestrated' an 'unlawful scheme' to influence the 2016 election by paying off Stormy Daniels and covering it up, Manhattan DA says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Manhattan DA alleged that Trump orchestrated an unlawful scheme to influence the 2016 election. Trump violated election laws and falsified business records related to hush-money payments, the DA said. Trump was formally arraigned in Manhattan on Tuesday related to hush-money payments made ahead of the 2016 election. The first president to ever face criminal charges, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. Trump and others "orchestrated" an "unlawful scheme" to suppress negative information about him during his 2016 campaign by violating election laws and falsifying business records, the brief says.

☆ Trump will rush back to post-arraignment press event in Florida less than 6 hours after courthouse plea
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Donald Trump is expected to be arraigned in New York City on Tuesday afternoon. The embattled former president plans to race back to Florida immediately after and give a speech. Trump is counting on having hundreds of supporters by his side post-arraignment. Trump's arraignment is reported to start at 2:15 ET as he faces charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. ScreenshotTrump announced on social media that he would fly to New York on Monday, and planned to spend the night at his apartment there.

☆ Trump campaign raised $7 million since indictment, aide says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former US President Donald Trump sits in the rear of his limousine as he departs Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 1, 2023. Former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign raised $7 million in the days after his indictment in Manhattan, a top campaign aide said Monday. Senior Trump aide Jason Miller announced the haul as the ex-president was en route to New York City ahead of his expected arrest and arraignment on Tuesday. Trump has repeatedly decried District Attorney Alvin Bragg's probe as a "witch hunt," and has attacked the DA himself in vitriolic terms. After the grand jury's vote, Trump's campaign started running Facebook ads that seized on the development.

☆ Trump to fly to New York to surrender on indictment in porn star payoff criminal case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former US President Donald Trump's private airplane known as Trump Force One is parked on the tarmac at the Palm Beach International Airport on March 31, 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida. - Giorgio Viera | AFP | Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump prepared to fly to New York's LaGuardia Airport on Monday to surrender to face criminal charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump is due to be arraigned Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, where a grand jury indicted him Thursday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is prosecuting Trump, has not made any public statement about the charges other than confirming the indictment was filed. Manhattan District Court

☆ Factbox: From Bragg to Tacopina: Who's who in Trump hush money case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Mike Stone | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg leaves after former U.S. President Donald Trump's indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York City, U.S., March 30, 2023. At issue is a $130,000 hush payment to an adult film star made in the waning days of the 2016 election campaign. Allegedly the payment was hush money paid to benefit Trump's presidential campaign, to cover up a 2006 sexual encounter. ALVIN BRAGGTrump's indictment has thrust New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg into the spotlight. He has represented rapper Meek Mill, former Yankees baseball star Alex Rodriguez and Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle.

☆ Joe Exotic welcomed a newly indicted Trump to the 'party' of presidential candidates charged with crimes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Joe Exotic welcomed Donald Trump to the club of presidential candidates charged with crimes. "Former President Trump now that you have been indicted- Welcome to the party!" Exotic wrote on Instagram. The "Tiger King" star took to Instagram to welcome Trump to the "party" after Trump was indicted on Thursday. Despite being in prison, Exotic announced on Twitter in March that he had launched a long-shot 2024 presidential bid.

☆ Bill Barr says an indicted Trump shouldn't take the stand in New York because 'he lacks all self-control'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He said it would be a "particularly bad idea" for Trump to testify because he "lacks all self-control." "I'm not his lawyer, generally I think it's a bad idea to go on the stand," Barr replied. "And I think it's a particularly bad idea for Trump because he lacks all self-control, and it would be very difficult to prepare him and keep him testifying in a prudent fashion." Barr served as attorney general under Trump from February 2019 to December 2020 and was considered a close Trump ally. In response to Barr's book, Trump called the former attorney general "slow-moving," "pathetic," and "weak."

REUTERS/Bing Guan/File PhotoNEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) - New York City police have thrown up metal barriers around Trump Tower and blocked roads near Manhattan Criminal Courthouse as they brace for potential protests ahead of Donald Trump's expected surrender to prosecutors on Tuesday. The downtown courthouse, home to criminal and supreme courts, will shut down some courtrooms ahead of Trump's expected appearance, a court official said. However, many Trump supporters online have expressed wariness about public demonstrations, even after Trump called for them, concerned they could be arrested. Trump is expected to fly to New York on Monday from Florida and spend the night at Trump Tower, before arriving early Tuesday morning at the courthouse, a Trump adviser said. A court official told Reuters that courtrooms on higher floors of the courthouse will be closed at 1 p.m., shortly before Trump's expected 2:15 p.m. (1815 GMT) arraignment.

"I will do anything to protect Mr. Trump," Cohen told Fox News in 2017. "I decided that I was not going to allow history to remember me as the villain to his story," Cohen told Reuters in an interview. He said he was reimbursed in installments, and displayed a copy of a $35,000 check from Trump's personal bank account. He has also said that much of his criminal conduct - including the lie to Congress and the Daniels payment - arose out of his blind loyalty to Trump. On Friday, Cohen told Reuters he expected Trump and his allies to attack him.

☆ DeSantis uses Long Island speech to blast the indictment of a 'former president' while declining to directly name political rival Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis spoke to a crowd Saturday about former President Donald Trump's indictment. He also appeared to use the speech as an opportunity to criticize Trump — though again without naming him. Ron DeSantis used a Saturday stop in Long Island to stick up for former President Donald Trump following his indictment, but the Florida politician avoided using Trump's name in the nearly hour-long speech. Following his indictment, Trump's popularity over DeSantis has grown, according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll in which Trump beat DeSantis by 26 percentage points among registered Republican voters and Independents who lean Republican. Representatives for Trump and DeSantis did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ Trump Indictment Is a Perversion of Campaign-Finance Law
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Bradley A. Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In choosing to convene a grand jury to pursue the Donald Trump- Stormy Daniels affair, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faced two big problems—one political, one legal. The indictment of Mr. Trump will address the first, likely at the expense of the second. To recap how we got here: Ms. Daniels, a pornographic film performer, alleges she had a fling with Mr. Trump in 2006, nearly a decade before he entered the Republican primary for president. Once Mr. Trump became a candidate, Ms. Daniels began demanding money in exchange for her silence. Mr. Trump obliged, and his company, the Trump Organization, sent $130,000 to Ms. Daniels through Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen .

☆ Texas will play an outsized role in selecting the next GOP presidential nominee. So Trump isn't leaving anything to chance.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump has previously indicated that he wouldn't leave the 2024 presidential race if he was indicted. Among the bold-named Texas figures who have signed on to Trump's 2024 campaign are Lt. Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been floated as a potential 2024 presidential candidate, was also not on the list. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas won his home state in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Cruz took home the lion's share of Texas' GOP delegates in what is a winner-takes-most system.

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