Stony-faced Trump walks silently into Manhattan courtroom

A stony-faced former President Donald Trump snubbed reporters and walked silently into the courtroom after being fingerprinted and processed at the New York Criminal Court Tuesday afternoon.
While a reporter could be heard beckoning the ex-president over to journalists, kaossablon Trump silently walked by them with a scowl on his face.

He had his lawyer Joe Tacopina with him, along with aides Jason Miller and Boris Epshteyn. 
He was headed into the formal arraignment, where he'll learn the specific charges that have been under seal since he was indicted on Thursday - a historical first. 
Earlier he had expressed disbelief that he was about to be arrested over his role in the Stormy Daniels hush-money probe.  
'Heading to Lower Manhattan, the Courthouse.

Seems so SURREAL - WOW, they are going to ARREST ME. Can't believe this is happening in America. MAGA!' Trump posted to his Truth Social network as he drove from Trump Tower to the lower Manhattan courthouse. 
Trump arrived back in New York Monday and overnighted in Trump Tower, where he spent most of Tuesday in his 26th floor office. 
He gave a fist bump to gathered photographers before getting in this motorcade and making the drive to court. 
A stony-faced former President Donald Trump snubbed reporters and walked silently into the courtroom after being fingerprinted and processed at the New York Criminal Court Tuesday afternoon
Trump is photographed seated in the courtroom Tuesday as he appears for an arraignment on charges related to the Stormy Daniels hush-money scheme 
Trump was surrounded by his defense attorneys and political aide Boris Epshteyn (right) as he sat in court Tuesday
Former President Donald Trump waves as he arrives Tuesday around 1:30 p.m.

to New York Criminal Court in lower Manhattan
During his short drive between Trump Tower and court, the former president expressed disbelief that he was about to be arrested 
Upon arriving at the lower Manhattan courthouse - which had been surrounded by pro and anti-Trump protesters and droves of press all Tuesday - the ex-preident went through the booking process, including getting his fingerprints taken, .
Prior to his arrival a judge decided that Trump didn't need to pose for a mugshot - despite allies suggesting it could work well in his presidential campaign advertisements.
And despite reports that said he's speak to journalists before and after the arraignment, Trump said nothing as he walked into and departed the courtroom. 
He's expected to deliver a formal statement back at Mar-a-Lago later Tuesday night.  
Once Trump was in the courtroom, he was seated with Tacopina, his two other defense attorneys and Epshteyn, a longtime political aide. 
 Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to the hush-money scheme - and sablonbaju pleaded not guilty. 
The unsealed indictment was just 16-pages long. 
The 34 counts come from each time a payment to his ex-lawyer turned critic Michael Cohen was falsified during 11 months in 2017.  
The statement of facts said that from between August of 2015 to December of 2017, Trump 'orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant's electoral prospects.' 
The court documents said that at Trump's request, 'Lawyer A,' known to be Michael Cohen, paid $130,000 to 'an adult film actress,' which was Daniels, in advance of election day. 
After the election, Cohen was paid back through a series of monthly checks.  
'Each check was processed by the Trump Organization, and each check was disguised as a payment for legal services rendered in a given month of 2017 pursuant to a retainer agreement,' the court filing explained.

'The payment records, kept and maintained by the Trump Organization, were false New York business records. In truth, there was no retainer agreement, and Lawyer A was not being paid for legal services rendered in 2017.' 
'The Defendant caused his entities' business records to be falsified to disguise his and others' criminal conduct,' the court document said.
The background information on the indictment also included details about the catch-and-kill schemes used by American Media, Inc., the owner of the National Enquirer. 
The company's former CEO David Pecker was one of the last witnesses to come before the grand jury before they voted to indict. 
The court document details an August 2015 Trump Tower meeting in which Pecker, identified as 'AMI CEO,' agreed to act as the 'eyes and ears' for the Republican candidate, who was two months into his presidential campaign. 
Pecker would assist the campaign by looking out for negative stories about Trump and alerting Cohen about their existence. 
One such story - which was later found to be false - was from a doorman of Trump's, who alleged he knew about a secret lovechild produced by the now ex-president.
Court documents said that Pecker wanted to release the doorman from a $30,000 deal for exclusive rights to his story, but Cohen instructed him not to do so until after the presidential election. 
The documents also detail how former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal - called 'Woman 1' in the filing - was paid $150,000 by American Media, Inc.

for the exclusive rights to her story about how she had an affair with the married Trump. 
The filing said prosecutors had an audio recording from September 2016 in which Trump and Cohen discussed how to obtain the rights to McDougal's account and how to reimburse AMI. 
In the recording, Trump suggests paying by cash and then by check, but Cohen ultimately created a shell company called Resolution Consultants, LLC. 
A deal to transfer McDougal's story to Resolution Consultants, LLC.

ended up falling through, under the advisement of AMI's lawyer. 
The court document then details how the infamous 'grab them by the p****' Access Hollywood tape was released, which appeared to derail Trump's presidential bid. 
Shortly after its release, AMI's editor-in-chief warned Pecker that another woman - the porn star Daniels - was alleging that she had a tryist with Trump while he was married. 
On October 10, 2016, weeks before the election, Cohen was connected to Daniels' lawyer Keith Davidson through AMI's editor-in-chief and he negotiated that Daniels would receive $130,000 for her silence. 
Trump directed Cohen to delay the payment to Daniels for 'as long as possible,' the filing said. 
'He instructed Lawyer A that if they could delay the payment until after the election, they could avoid paying altogether, because at that point it would not matter if the story became public,' the filing said. 
The court document said there were texts and emails between Cohen, Davidson and AMI's editor-in-chief showing that there was an attempt to delay the hush-money from being paid. 
Ultimately Trump 'agreed to the payoff and directed Lawyer A to proceed' and there were discussions between Trump, Cohen and the CFO of the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg. 
Trump told the two men to figure out how to make the payment, as he didn't want to do it himself. 
Cohen agreed to make the payment, with the filing saying he confirmed with Trump that he would be paid back. 
After Trump won the White House, notes Weisselberg took - that prosecutors had - showed how the $130,000 paid to Daniels by Cohen would be paid back. 
The lawyer would make, in total, $420,000. 
'The Trump Organization CFO memorialized these calculations in handwritten notes on the copy of the bank statement that Lawyer A had provided,' the court documents said. 
Trump, Weisselberg and Cohen decided that Cohen would ask for a montly retainer fee of $35,000 throughout 2017. 
Manhattan prosecutors found that Trump and Cohen met in the Oval Office in February 2017 'and confirmed this repayment arrangement.' 
'The checks and stubs bearing the false statements were stapled to the invoices also bearing false statements.

The Defendant signed each of the checks personally and had them sent back to the Trump Organization in New York County,' the document said. 
Former President Donald Trump holds up his fist as he departs Trump Tower to appear in court after being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury 
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Trump is captured leaving Trump Tower for his afterrnoon in court Tuesday after being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury.

The indictment will be unsealed once Trump arrives in court 
The former president's motorcade winds through New York City as Trump heads to his arraignment Tuesday
Officers and Secret Service agents were posted in the hallways near where Trump was going through the booking process
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg arrives at his office on Tuesday morning ahead of the historic arraignment that is the first step in a career-defining case for him 
The case was brought in front of a grand jury by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who arrived at court Tuesday morning ahead of the former president. 
Speaking with ABC's George Stephanopoulos ahead of Trump's historic arraignment on Tuesday, Tacopina said Trump will not be pleading guilty to a misdemeanor to make the case disappear and didn't believe it would see a jury trial.
He also said he couldn't see how Trump could abide by a gag order. 
'Here you have something uniquely different,' Tacopina said on GMA.

'The defendant is the leading Republican candidate for the office of the president of the United States and will be campaigning. Hard to put a gag order when he's going to be fielding questions about his current legal situation.'
Trump has been defiant ahead of the arraignment, declaring himself to be the victim of weaponized legal system and a political target by Democrats who don't want to see him win another term in the White House. 
Trump after longtime D.C.

journalist Michael Isikoff, , reported that the former president would be charged with 34 felony counts - but spared handcuffs and a mugshot. 
'Wow!
District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me,' Trump posted to Truth Social. 
'I know the reporter, and so, unfortunately, does he,' Trump added, pointing to Isikoff. 
Isikoff became a national figure during the 1990s as the first D.C.

reporter to know about President Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. 
'This means that he MUST BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED,' Trump said of Bragg, a Democrat. 'Now, if he wants to really clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing and, as District Attorney, INDICT HIMSELF.
He will go down in Judicial history, and his Trump Hating wife will be, I am sure, very proud of him!'
The case involves a $130,000 hush-money payment that his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to Daniels in the final days of the 2016 campaign. 
Cohen said he made the payment at Trump's direction and it was to ensure Daniels would not go public with her story of a sexual encounter with the married Trump. 
Anti-Trump protesters demonstrate outside Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on the day of former U.S.

President Donald Trump's planned court appearance after his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury
A supporter of former U.S.

President Donald Trump demonstrates outside Manhattan Criminal Courthouse
Police officers take a demonstrator into custody as pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators gather near Manhattan court ahead of the former US President Donald Trump's arraignment in New York, United States on April 04, 2023
The alleged affair happened in 2006, long before Trump entered politics and when he was married to Melania.

It was shortly after she gave birth to their son Barron. 
Trump denies both the affair and any legal wrongdoing. 
He's also called Bragg a 'racist in reverse.' 
He also claims Bragg is funded by Jewish billionaire George Soros, who many conspiracy theorists claim is using his money to control world events.
'Bragg is a (Soros) Racist in Reverse, who is taking his orders from D.C.

I beat them TWICE, doing much better the second time, and despite their DISINFORMATION campaign, they don't want to run against 'TRUMP' or my GREAT RECORD!' Trump wrote on his TruthSocial platform last month.
Soros, who made his fortune in hedge funds, said he never contributed to Bragg's election campaign. Soros has become a figure of hate for Trump and his allies.
The former president also pushed for the case to be moved from Manhattan to the more Republican-friendly Staten Island just hours before his historic arraignment. 
Trump tore into the judge's supposed anti-Trump sentiment on Truth Social and said the new location would be 'very fair and secure.'
He also noted that the Judge Juan Merchan's daughter, Loren Merchan, worked for Vice President Kamala Harris' 2020 presidential campaign, deepening the alleged bias against him.
Judge Merchan's daughter Loren worked as the director of digital for Harris' 2020 presidential campaign. She was with the campaign from February 2019 until December of the same year.
Loren Merchan concluded her work with the campaign to move to fill the same role at Authentic, a digital strategies firm for progressives. 
A supporter of former US president Donald Trump argues with opponents outside the Manhattan District Attorney's office in New York City on April 4, 2023
Protesters clashing outside of One Hogan Place, New York, NY, Tuesday April 4th, 2023. 
Chaos at the courthouse: Trump fan Juliet Germanotta, dressed in a denim jacket and a MAGA hat, throws herself over a Trump banner outside the courthouse 
Germanotta got back on her feet and began arguing with one of his critics after trying to tear down an anti-Trump sign outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse 
And polls show Trump's strategy may be working as he is more popular than ever with Republican voters and getting a massive political boost as he seeks a second term in the White House.
National polls, as well as state surveys in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, show voters are still supporting his third bid for president.
Trump is leading his closest competition, Florida Gov.

Ron DeSantis, by double digits. 
DeSantis originally took a few digs at Trump - saying he didn't know what went into paying hush money to porn stars - but as polls showed Trump's popularity, the Florida governor switched tactics, saying he block New York if it attempted to extradite Trump. 
The former president voluntarily went to Manhattan and appeared in court, meaning an extradition attempt was not needed.

Other Republicans have spoken in Trump's defense, saying the former president is a victim of politics. 
Additionally, Trump's campaign said it's raised $8 million dollars since news of his pending indictment broke. On Tuesday morning, it sent out another appeal, titled 'My last email before arrest.'
A conviction would not prevent Trump from running for or winning the presidency in 2024. 
Defiance and defensive attacks are the corner stones of any Trump strategy - tactics he has used throughout his business career, during his two presidential runs, and throughout his time in the White House. 
It helped him when he was impeached twice by the U.S.

House of Representatives - but he was never convicted in the U.S. Senate.
The former president faces other possible indictments: the Justice Department is investigating him on two separate cases: the discovery of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.

The state of Georgia is also investigating Trump's attempts to overturn the election results there.
Ahead of Tuesday's hearing, Trump called on his supporters to protest his arraignment. 
Republican Rep.

Marjorie Taylor Greene (pictured bottom left in sunglasses) was swarmed by a huge scrum of the media and protesters as she appeared for a rally outside the court hosting Donald Trump's indictment
The firebrand sablonkaos Trump ally was drowned out as she tried to speak in a park opposite the court by anti-Trump protesters screaming 'Nazi' and 'go back to Georgia b****'
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican and who is a close Trump ally, at the park across from the courthouse. 
'President Trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today. Nelson Mandela was arrested, served time in prison. Jesus!

Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government,' Greene told Right Side Broadcasting Network as she drove around New York , RSBN reporter Brian Glenn. 
Greene was heckled by New Yorkers on the scene, NKPRINTGO calling her a litany of insults including 'Nazi' and a 'fucking b****!'
Disgraced Rep.

George Santos also made a surprise appearance. 
Greene said the case was a 'travesty' and that it should 'never happen in America ever'. But her words could barely be heard as counter-protesters took to the streets, sablonkaosdtf screaming back at her.
The only other president to be charged with a crime was Ulysses S.

Grant, who was arrested in 1872 for speeding in his horse and buggy near Logan Circle in Washington, D.C.
He was taken to jail and had to pay a $20 fine.



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