The former president is also dominating in Republican presidential polls, leading the next closest candidate by more than 30 points. At current, including felony state-level charges he is fighting in an unrelated case out of New York, Trump is facing 71 separate felony charges. president has ever been charged with a crime. Trump stopped at a Miami cafe to meet with more supporters not far from the courthouse, before boarding his private plane and flying to Bedminster, N.J., for a scheduled evening campaign appearance. Trump had called on his supporters to protest his court appearance and hundreds answered his call, waving flags bearing the former president’s name and stylized image. The scene in Miami outside the courthouse was mostly peaceful. court appearance and waved from the back of his government SUV when he left shortly before 4 p.m. The former president was met by cheers from supporters when he arrived at the federal courthouse ahead of his 3 p.m. Legal experts suggest she may wait for either side to begin filing motions in the case before coming up with a schedule for proceedings. It is unclear when Trump will next need to appear in court, as Cannon did not immediately set a date for the next phase of the trial. Technically now under arrest by federal authorities, along with his personal valet Walt Nauta who is also facing related charges stemming from his role in the documents case, Trump will remain free on his own recognizance to campaign and carry on with business. Trump was not made to stand for a mug shot nor were his fingers inked for prints. Trump, who was in court for less than 2 hours, was not forced to post bail nor subjected to conditions for his release, other than that he not discuss the particulars of the case with witnesses except in the presence of counsel. Trump, now twice impeached and twice indicted, was already sitting in the court when reporters were allowed in to witness his afternoon arraignment over alleged mishandling of classified information and obstruction of justice in the months after he left the White House. “They ought to drop this case immediately because they are destroying this country.” “I had every right to have these documents,” he added, citing former President Bill Clinton’s legal fight to keep his personal materials. “This is a day that will go down in infamy … and threatening me with 400 years in prison” is a “heinous abuse,” Trump said at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, just before 9 p.m. District Court for the Southern District of Florida since 2020 when she was appointed by the former president. The 42-year-old has been a judge of the U.S. Tuesday in answering to 37 counts leveled against him by the government he once led, before placing his immediate future into the hands of Judge Aileen Cannon in a Miami federal court. “Not guilty,” former President Trump said around 3 p.m. It was an unprecedented day in American history. The day started with a suspicious package alert, then a historic arraignment, a stop at a Little Havana eatery after and a rally at a New Jersey golf club where Donald Trump slammed what he called a “sham indictment.”
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