Trump Indictment Leak: New Details Reveal How Arraignment Will Play Out

The 45th President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump will reportedly be placed under arrest later today on an indictment of over thirty felony counts, but will allegedly be treated far differently from any ordinary defendant according to information leaked to the media.

Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff revealed in his bombshell report that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will charge Trump with 34 counts of falsification of business records citing a source “briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president.”

Once he is taken into custody by the NYPD, Trump will allegedly NOT be subjected to handcuffs, a jail cell, or a mug shot despite salacious, speculative reporting otherwise until the Judge has had an opportunity to consider pretrial conditions. Bragg’s DA office has reportedly been in consultation with New York City Court officers as well as Trump’s Secret Service detail and concluded,

“[T]here was no reason to subject the former president to handcuffs or a mug shot.”

According to Isikoff’s report, the reason for handcuffing a defendant is that they may either pose a flight risk or a threat to court personnel, “neither of which was judged to be relevant to the handling of a former president protected at all times by a phalanx of Secret Service agents.”

Essentially, it seems that Trump will be held in custody for all intents and purposes by his own protective detail.

The charges against President Trump are typically prosecuted as misdemeanors in New York but were escalated to Class E felonies by Bragg’s office on the shaky legal theory that “the conduct was intended to conceal another underlying crime,” according to Isikoff’s source.

“This could be a novel legal theory,” said Kate Shaw, a law professor at Cardozo and ABC News contributor, speculating on the charges Friday.

“We are pretty sure that at the heart of this charge is filing false business records with an attempt to defraud — that’s a misdemeanor, a state charge — that can become a felony if it’s done in furtherance of another crime,” Shaw said according to ABC7. “So, the question becomes what might that other crime be?”

“If it’s a federal campaign finance crime, that is pretty novel legal terrain,” she continued. “It’s also possible that there’s another crime, in the vein of a state tax crime, that a false records charge could be tied to, making it into a felony.”

Following the leak of the indictment details, a spokesman for Trump told the outlet that his legal team still hadn’t seen the indictment or been briefed on any of the details.

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Trump himself posted to Truth Social, “Wow! District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me. I know the reporter and so, unfortunately, does he. This means that he MUST BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED. 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!”

He continued in a second post writing, “D.A. BRAGG JUST ILLEGALLY LEAKED THE 33 points of Indictment. There are no changes or surprises from those he leaked days ago directly out of the Grand Jury. No Crime by Trump. What a MESS. Bragg should resign, NOW!”

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