Yesterday afternoon/evening, Donald Trump boarded his plane, now forever known as Con Air, and flew from Mar-a-Lago to New York. Most of the cable news channels covered it live, giving Trump the full “OJ Simpson in a white Bronco” treatment. Today, Trump will be arraigned in a Manhattan court. Reportedly, there were many negotiations, not only between Trump, his lawyers and DA Alvin Bragg and his team, but with the Secret Service as well. It was apparently negotiated ahead of time that Trump will not be handcuffed (because normal cuffs won’t fit on his tiny baby fists) and it doesn’t appear as though a mug shot will be taken or released. Still, Trump apparently wants today to be a pure MAGA spectacle.
Donald Trump insisted on turning his Tuesday arraignment into a spectacle, and he’s going to get his wish. A law enforcement official tells Rolling Stone that the former president was offered a chance to surrender quietly and be arraigned over Zoom. Instead, Trump opted for a midday, high-profile booking at the Manhattan courthouse, the official says.
“He wanted a perp walk, he wanted daylight hours,” says the law enforcement official, who’s involved in aspects of the security planning. “He wants to get out of the vehicle and walk up the stairs. This is a nightmare for Secret Service, but they can only strongly suggest — not order — that Trump enter through the secure tunnels,” the official says. “Trump wants to greet the crowd. This should be a surprise to no one — especially not his detail.”
Secret Service had argued in favor of holding the proceedings outside of court business hours, at night with minimal cameras and less risk. But Trump, a source close to his legal team says, wants to create the type of scene that he believes will galvanize his supporters.
“It’s kind of a Jesus Christ thing. He is saying ‘I’m absorbing all this pain from all around from everywhere so you don’t have to,’ ” says the source. Describing the message Trump hopes to send his supporters, the source says: “ ‘If they can do this to me they can do this to you,’ and that’s a powerful message.”
Trump’s arraignment is scheduled for 2:30, but the law enforcement official said Trump is now expected to arrive at the courthouse around 11:30 a.m. When it is time for him to appear, other people whose bookings are being processed will be temporarily detained. The floor above and below the courtrooms will be secured. He is expected to plead not guilty, his lawyers have said. Trump’s legal team is pushing for cameras to be kept out of the courtroom, with one lawyer warning it would create a would “create a circus-like atmosphere,” ABC News reports.
Trump will be fingerprinted and processed, and will have his mug shot taken in the booking office, a small office in the courthouse. He will not be handcuffed, according to the law enforcement official. “Secret Service said absolutely not, no cuffs, no way.”
Now, Michael Isikoff at Yahoo News reports that not only will Trump avoid the handcuffs (wow, they’re really worried about the size of his hands), he will also avoid a mug shot. The arraignment and booking process will be specially streamlined for him. I hate that – if Bigly Christ Superstar wants a spectacle, then put on a f–king show. Storm into Trump Tower and handcuff him. Drag him into the courthouse in full view of the media. Release a mug shot with his crooked wig and smeared makeup.
Anyway, from the looks of things, New York is not putting up with any MAGA bullsh-t. There were (legitimate) fears that Trump and his supporters would try to incite another “January 6th” style insurrection. I just think there will be more people protesting TRUMP and not his arrest today.
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Grifters gonna grift. Of course he wants as big a show as possible, and how else will he feed his ego and bank balance?
34 Felonies are being charged against the fat liar. I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He’s corrupt as is his family.
Too bad Central Park Zoo doesn’t have lions. If he’s really that eager to play the martyr, we could’ve just thrown him in the cage and been done with him.
The Bronx Zoo does. Better yet for the purpose, the Bronx Zoo has gorillas.
And the Queens Zoo has alligators.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/alligator-found-lake-new-york-city-park/story?id=97331931
EmilyC, Central Park has alligators, too? And NY has lots of rodents.
I hope they televise him surreptitiously.
Fingers crossed the crowds don’t show – even if it’s protesters against him. His Hell would be him showing up and nobody caring enough to be there.
And I wish the media would ignore it. No cameras or media outlets. No supporters or even protesters. That would destroy him.
I’m betting every, single media company will show up for his. “rant”/press conference from his Florida dump. Many will show it live. They will never learn. Starve this beast of oxygen.
Actually, it’s the DA who doesn’t want a mug shot. It’s not required by law, but once it’s taken, the DA’s office has custody of it, and they know, no matter what they do, it will leak. So, they’re just gonna skip it. No point in giving Trump ammunition with a leaked mug shot.
Even though Trump wants all this attention with a perp walk so, in his mind, he looks like Jesus, he doesn’t want the arraignment itself to be televised. Apparently, there are limits to his victimhood.
He doesn’t want the actual facts to be televised. That way, he can still pretend that it wasn’t an entire grand jury that voted to send the case forward, not a single man like he keeps claiming. But the judge will most definitely muzzle both sides, so let’s see how long he can last not spilling his lies.
The judge is also not allowing cell phones or recording devices in the media seats, either in the room or the overflow room. Those outlets better hope they have journalists who are brilliant at writing shorthand in old-school paper notebooks.
No point in putting handcuffs on him. He’d just slide his baby hands right out.
^^^ Lol.lol.lol
Now forever known as Con Air 😂
He is a criminal. His personal preferences for how the indictment happens shouldn’t be an issue. Even now he keeps manipulating things.
He will be returning to Mar A Lago tonight. Sorry, but I can’t be too excited about all this. It is hardly the prison sentence he deserves. It is just another court appearance…and another chance for him to slither out of the consequences he should face.
He should rot in jail, but he won’t.
Duchess, he probably won’t go to jail, because most people who are charged with similar charges do not. However, this is a nasty little “paper cut” and he’s going to bleed a bit. Republicans who are less on the fringes are not going to support the guy who constantly needs to go to court. They like “strong” men, not the chump who needs their sympathy.
Here’s hoping the paper cut gets infected, turns to gangrene and all sorts of appendages turn black and fall off.
Michael Cohen went to jail for it, Drumpf should too. And the prosecutors office needs to take his passport. Not that that would stop him from fleeing to Saudi, UAE, etc.
Oh please, nobody’s gonna shoot at him- everyone wants to see him face charges! I’m glad he’s not getting a mug shot, as he’s reportedly planning to use the image on shirts for more grifting. Don’t give him the satisfaction. I really, really wish the news media would not cover his little victim/victory speech tonight, but I know they’ll have their cameras trained on the empty podium just like his plane yesterday. I’m getting bad 2016 deja vu…
The media is now complicit. There was so much happening around the country yesterday but it was all ignored to give wall to wall coverage of this grifting con man. And it will be the same today.
Great point. The protests in TN are everything Trump is not! 🔥🔥🔥
God he is repulsive. I can’t even look at him. He looks like the guy in the first XMen movie who turns into a giant water filled sack and then bursts open. The human blister.
Love this. He IS a human blister!
I really, really hope there is no perp walk or any kind of public showing. Yes, the visuals would be immensely satisfying but he’ll just use the footage for grifting purposes.
I’m happy this is happening but I wish they didn’t do it during the week of Easter. If course he’d take advantage of the holiday to draw parallels.
The dude can’t even stop posting on Truth Social for a single morning. Yammering on about Bragg & Jack Smith. He needs a partial gag order, he can taint the jury pool and endanger lives.
He’s like that Ron White joke “I had the right to remain silent, but not the ability.”
Now if only he could become IRRELEVANT and NEVER TO BE HEARD FROM after all of this!
Don’t give him the spectacle. He wants to incite chaos, rage and violence. Make it QUIET AF. Don’t feed him and his magats.
“If they can do this to me, they can do it to you.”
Well, that’s exactly the point, dingus. How’s equal under the eyes of the law feeling, you disgusting fascist? I hope it stings. I have a bottle of bubbly chilling in anticipation.