Donald Trump has already become the first former president of the United States to face a criminal charge. The tycoon has arrived at the headquarters of the Manhattan district attorney’s office to hand him over to Justice and submit to the reading of charges against him. He will previously formalize his police file.
The Republican leader left Trump Tower around one in the afternoon (7:00 p.m. in Spain), where he spent the night last night and stayed this morning meeting with his team of lawyers and political advisers. In the middle of an imposing caravan of limousines and vehicles with tinted windows, occupied mostly by members of the Secret Service and the New York Police, he has circulated to the courthouse through streets closed to traffic where his supporters and their detractors, easily identifiable by the banners they displayed. The caravan numbered two dozen vehicles, controlled by a large group of motorcycle policemen. Helicopters buzzed over the skyscrapers.
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The arrival at the judicial headquarters, at 1:30 p.m. (7:30 p.m. in Spain), has been a veritable festival of secret agents, journalists and New York police deployed in anticipation of eventual incidents, which have not occurred. The atmosphere is very different from that of the assault on the Capitol in 2021. Here, anger has been replaced by curiosity and a feeling of being faced with a historical event, one of those that tomorrow will be told to the grandchildren with the ineffable lead “I was there…”.
Nor has Trump’s attitude been that of an outgoing president, angry, brave, inflaming the masses. He got out of one of the vehicles, turned towards the press area and the meters of sidewalk occupied by his supporters and raised his fist several times as a sign of strength before waving. He then he has headed towards the judicial office, almost disappeared in the midst of dozens of members of the Secret Service. During the journey from Trump Tower he has traveled alone in the company of his escort group. The two lawyers who accompany him in the proceedings, Todd Blanche and Susan Necheles, followed him in another SUV later. And in a third party his political advisers Jason Miller and Walt Nauta have traveled.
Trump is possibly undergoing the process of registering his fingerprints at this time. He will not take the usual mugshots for the file. The common purpose of this practice is to facilitate the recognition of criminals in the event of flight or if it is necessary to find them once the sentence has been served. In the case of the former president, it does not seem that now or in the future there may be identification problems.
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