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Only a few hours had passed since former President Donald Trump was in a Manhattan courtroom, stern-faced, pleading not guilty before a judge to 34 felony criminal charges. Yet in the safety of his home at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Tuesday night, surrounded by supporters and family, his focus was…

Hours after arrest, former president lambasts ‘radical left lunatics’ and says US is a ‘nation in decline’

Ex-US president’s arraignment in New York was a relatively muted affair, as Trump faced 34 felony charges.

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump Tuesday called for his criminal case to be moved to Staten Island, calling Manhattan a “VERY UNFAIR VENUE!” because some neighborhoods voted overwhelmingly for President Biden.

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s hush money case is being overseen by a veteran Manhattan Supreme Court jurist who also heard the Trump Organization tax fraud trial that in January ended in a jail term for Trump confidant and aide Allen Weisselberg.

Here’s all you need to know about the unprecedented case against former US president, who faces 34 charges in New York.

Former president also attacked Judge Juan Merchan and his family during Mar-a-Lago speech

The charges he faces relate to hush money payments dating from 2016, during the presidential campaign, to cover allegations he had an extramarital affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.

New York (AFP) - Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts inside a packed New York courtroom Tuesday, in a dramatic hearing that transfixed the nation and began the countdown to the first ever criminal trial of an American president.

Trump pleads not guilty to 34 counts of falsification of business records in Manhattan Criminal Court

The grand jury indictment, which is the first against a former president, was unsealed before Judge Juan Merchan.