Day of Chaos: Trump’s Arraignment Is Finally Here
As former President Donald Trump prepared to make the short drive from Trump Tower on 5th Avenue to the Manhattan criminal courthouse on Tuesday, the city that made him now threatened to ruin him.
Trump will be booked and arraigned Tuesday afternoon and reportedly presented with dozens of felony charges. A man who had somehow skirted serious legal ramifications for decades is finally facing a true reckoning. And even before Trump emerged Tuesday, the scene in downtown New York was already chaos.
Outside the courthouse, Trump supporters were heckling reporters. Anti-facsists were waving “Fuck Trump” flags. Helicopters circled overhead. News vans blocked the sidewalks. Even serial-fraudster-turned-Congressman George Santos made a brief appearance, walking across Collect Pond Park before deciding the scene was “too chaotic” and that he “felt threatened.”