NEW YORK — Day one of the Donald Trump indictment spectacle began Monday as the former president traveled from his Florida compound to his Fifth Avenue high rise ahead of a historic criminal indictment charging him in a political hush money scheme.
Barricades and Trump’s motorcade took center stage throughout the day as supporters lined a Palm Beach parkway to see him off on his trip to New York City, where defenders and detractors waited behind metal barriers for Trump to make his return.
The drama was set to shift Tuesday from Midtown to lower Manhattan, where Trump will be arraigned in a criminal courthouse surrounded by more barricades and more protesters loudly debating his guilt or innocence, and a prosecutor’s historic decision to even charge a former president of the United States with a crime.
