NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- Donald Trump is set to touch down in New York City on Monday ahead of his planned arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday. The former president said he’ll stay at Trump Tower Monday night. He expected to surrender to Manhattan prosecutors Tuesday morning for his 2:15 p.m. arraignment.
Law enforcement agencies have been increased security, with NYPD officers ordered to be on call for potential unrest. Directly after being arraigned, Trump will return to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where he’ll make an address Tuesday night. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in the case, which centers on hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election.
MONDAY, APRIL 3
8:15 a.m. -- Trump says he’ll depart Florida Monday at noon
Trump confirmed he’d leave his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday afternoon and stay in Trump Tower on Monday night.
In a post on his Truth Social network, he wrote, “I will be leaving Mar-a-Lago on Monday at 12 noon, heading to Trump Tower in New York. On Tuesday morning I will be going to, believe it or not, the Courthouse. America was not supposed to be this way!”
Security is tight around Trump Tower ahead of his arrival. A stretch of 56th Street was shut down between Sixth and Madison avenues, and Fifth Avenue is set to closer later in the day. Inaccessible “frozen zones” have also been set up in the area.
Come Tuesday, Trump is expected to take a motorcade to the courthouse in Lower Manhattan, which will be largely shut down. Court officials have cleared all other scheduled trials for the arraignment, Politico reported.
The arraignment will take place at 2:15 p.m. in a 15th-floor courtroom of Manhattan Criminal Court, with Justice Juan Merchan, a state Supreme Court judge, hearing the case brought by the Manhattan D.A.
The indictment is still sealed, but sources told the Associated Press that Trump is facing multiple charges of falsifying business records, including at least one felony offense.
7:30 a.m. -- Marjorie Taylor Greene to be at NYC rally
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will be at a “peaceful protest” Tuesday in Manhattan as Trump is being arraigned.
The Republican firebrand plans to headline a rally slamming the Manhattan D.A.'s indictment as politically motivated.
“Protesting is a constitutional right and I am going to NY on Tuesday to protest this unprecedented abuse of our justice system and election interference,” Greene tweeted on her personal Twitter account.
“We will not live in fear and we will lawfully stand against tyranny and corruption while we show our support for President Trump,” she wrote.
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