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Donald Trump will be arraigned in federal court today, Miami braces for protest

 

  • Court appearance takes place at 3 pm ET in Miami
  • Expected to plead not guilty to 37 counts
  • Will voluntarily turn himself in before that
  • Will be fingerprinted digitally
  • Mugshot will likely not made public
  • Will not be handcuffed

Former president Donald Trump will be arraigned in Miami federal court Tuesday to face 37 counts connected to his keeping hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach after leaving the White House.

Trump has his first appearance scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in downtown Miami. Federal agents and police, media and crowds of supporters and detractors are expected to fill the streets around the courthouse.

 


 

Live Streams

 


 

Updates:

Times are Eastern Standard Time

 

12:52pm

Police motorcycle escort arriving at Doral.

https://twitter.com/KarliBonnita/status/1668659961801453569 Play

 


1:33pm

Trump Motorcade heading to Miami Courthouse

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1668674339820953602 Play

 


1:46pm

Trump posts to social media from motorcade

 


1:52pm

Trump arrives at Miami Courthouse

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1668678566731456512 Play

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1668678847191982080

 


2:14pm

Donald Trump formally arrested on federal charges, will appear before a judge shortly

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1668683739180703745 Play

 


3:00pm

  • Trump now in federal court

  • Special Counsel Jack Smith is in attendance

  • Trump pleads "not guilty" to all 37 federal charges


3:15pm

  • Trump has been released without any travel conditions, as he is reportedly not a flight risk per the judge.

  • The judge said that former President Trump could have no contact with any witnesses in the case


3:55pm

  • Trump motorcade leaves courthouse through crowded streets

  • Protesters, one wearing a prisoner costume, jump in front of Trump's motorcade as he leaves court

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1668710687915253760 Play

 


4:15pm

Trump makes a stop at Cafe Versailles after leaving courthouse

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1668715242019340288 Play

 


5:00pm

  • Trump departs Miami airport for New Jersey

  • will deliver speech at 8pm from Bedminster

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just want to say how good this post looks. Easy to follow updates with links and videos embedded. Great job lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was just thinking this looks so much better than reddit...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i dont know if it looks that much better to me but it looks about the same, which is good for me personally

im just happy its workin to some degree at all. im kinda psyched on my first day poking around here

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It makes me sick seeing 10x the amount of cops as were present for Jan 6 there just to protect this fucking dipshit. There’s something really wrong about that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They're there to protect the courthouse from the same people who were at Jan 6.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They prevented the Capitol Police from getting sufficient number of people and equipment without permission from Trump and he never gave it, if I remember correctly.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

All I know is that if I were indicted with the same charges, I’d be sitting in prison awaiting trial

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

If any of us were indicted on even 1 of his 37 charges we would have been rotting in federal prison for the past 3 years

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Trump keeps claiming that he's being treated differently and he's right, but not in the way he means it. He's not being persecuted. He's being treated with exceptionally soft kid gloves.

He was given multiple chances to return the stuff he took. He was asked politely before a subpoena was issued. He was given time between the subpoena and the raid to turn everything over. After the raid, he wasn't immediately arrested and tossed behind bars. They even allowed him to come in and skip some procedures like being handcuffed and getting his mugshot taken.

He's been given way more considerations than anyone else who committed even remotely the number of infractions that he committed would get.

If Trump wants to not get treated differently, I'm all for it. Arrest him and toss him in jail while he waits for his trial. As a bonus, suddenly his usual tactic of delay, delay, delay won't be as attractive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You probably wouldn't even get that far honestly. Normal people don't really have a chance in these sorts of cases.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The Average US President has been indicted 1.54 times. (Trump is the only US president to ever be indicted.)

Shamelessly stolen from someone on Mastodon (unfortunately I can't find the toot).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does the math on that work? Number of indictments / number of Presidents = 1.54 would imply that the number of times Trump has been indicted exceeds the number of Presidents the U.S. has had and that ain't right...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah, I think comment OP got number of times indicted (I think twice so far?) confused with number of charges (37 or so for this indictment, more in the past and more forthcoming)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The actual average is 0.043*

2 indictments / 46 presidents

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure it is, you're forgetting the felony indictments in New York.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not. You just missed a few words from the original post. "The average US President has been indicted on 1.54 felony counts." That makes more sense. There have only been 2 indictments but many felony charges within them.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Trump has been released without any travel conditions, as he is reportedly not a flight risk per the judge.

I am not sure about that part…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He constantly has a secret service detail. He isn't a flight risk because he can't even try without being noticed.

I suppose he could run into his private jet and take off before they catch him, but I just can't see the man running very far or fast

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Does the SS have any reason to control him? I thought they just followed him around like puppies.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The judge said that former President Trump could have no contact with any witnesses in the case

ABC commenting on this being a big deal because that's basically his whole campaign team lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If what's already transpired is any measure, there's literally no way Trump can prevent himself from breaking the very, very few rules they have given him to follow in this case. It's part of why he is struggling to find new legal counsel, because very few want to represent someone who does so many self-incriminating things on the daily.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

he wanted to give some classified information, but instead of just handing them a document and saying "here's that thing you asked for" they literally have him on tape saying 'this is classified, I know it is, I could have declassified it but I didn't, now I can't, it's totally classified and I'm not supposed to have it and I'm definitely not supposed to show it to you so don't look too close'. Dude is terminally desperate to feel cool and important and it's quite literally gonna land him in federal prison.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The news I want is increasingly local. City council stuff, crime, policing, road closures, public transit issues, events, new businesses & organizations, "area man grows amusingly-shaped potato", "local landlord fined for hosting illegal pony fights in tenants' attic".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I would love to see him in a regular prison like he deserves, but can a person with secret service protection even get anything worse than house arrest? I've been unable to find clarifying information on this.

What he deserves is to not have special treatment anymore, but who knows how it will happen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I would imagine convictions related to espionage would probably strip you of any secret service protection. People argue that it's a former president's right to have SS protection, but remember the SS hasn't always been about protecting anyone, the used to only be counterfeit currency police

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

I think at this stage removing it would be equivalent to tattooing "assassinate me" on his forehead.

Look I hate the guy too and he doesn't deserve his freedom, but there's a large number of people in this world who would love to merc a former POTUS regardless of who that POTUS is or what they did. And frankly Trump is more dangerous as a martyr than he is alive and alone on house arrest for the rest of his life.

Edit, dead he can't speak for himself anymore, alive all he does is bury himself further every time he opens his mouth. Let him. Let him babble incoherently into obscurity. My father in law was full on MAGA and just last week he called Trump "fucking retarded" off-handedly. My wife and I both felt relief instantly. The dude is losing all but the extreme fringe.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

someone with presidential-level knowledge and no protection would be a prime target for abduction. trump would dump everything he knew at the first mention of torture, or maybe if he was just slipped a $20.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or a diet coke

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No mugshot, no handcuffs? Very disappointing, I needed those pictures to troll right wing nut jobs with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it’s better this way. Less likely to be painted as a victim of persecution.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did the guy in the prison costume get arrested? I’d say that’s irony if it weren’t in the midst of this circus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I imagine they got arrested, because they wanted to get arrested to serve as a statement in combination with their apparel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's incredible the level of downright braindead stupid you'd have to be to protest this. Like wtf is going on in these morons minds?

"Oh no an extremely powerful rich person is being arrested! What a travesty! Rich people are supposed to be above the law only us plebs should have to face consequences for our actions!! Let's riot people!!!"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The biggest loss is not having the mugshot. Imagine the thumbnails!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s the difference between being arraigned vs indicted vs arrested?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I hope they're putting every protestor on a watch list. This has to be a high density of nutcases that could lose their shit at any time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This has to be a high density of nutcases that could lose their shit at any time.

#florida

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

maga is just the noise the average conservative makes when gargling tr*mps sac

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