What are the costs? Is indictment one worse than indictment two? What was within the packing containers? And what of Trump 2024? Crikey clarifies.
Wearing his Wednesday greatest, former US president Donald Trump went two for 2 (indictments for months) immediately in Miami to entrance a contemporary spherical of legal prices, this time for the hiding and hoarding if top-secret paperwork at his Mar-a-Lago property.
Pleading “not responsible” to 37 counts of illegally retaining categorised content material and obstructing all authorities efforts to retrieve them, his look earlier than the federal Florida courtroom was fleeting. The decide granted Trump depart to go as he happy — no bail necessities and no home or worldwide restrictions for the personal jet. First cease was a Cuban restaurant the place Trump allegedly ordered no meals.
Trump was additionally exempt from business-as-usual authorized proceedings — no fingerprints, mugshot or audio rendition of his Miranda rights. His lawyer put this all the way down to Trump being in a “very distinctive place”. That being he’s not a flight danger given “he’s the main candidate of the GOP [Republican Party] for the time being,” she advised reporters outdoors the courtroom.
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