Donald Trump will be arraigned in federal court today, Miami braces for protest
- Court appearance takes place at 3 pm ET in Miami
- Expected to plead not guilty to 37 counts
- Will voluntarily turn himself in before that
- Will be fingerprinted digitally
- Mugshot will likely not made public
- Will not be handcuffed
Former president Donald Trump will be arraigned in Miami federal court Tuesday to face 37 counts connected to his keeping hundreds of classified documents at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach after leaving the White House.
Trump has his first appearance scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in downtown Miami. Federal agents and police, media and crowds of supporters and detractors are expected to fill the streets around the courthouse.
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Updates:
Times are Eastern Standard Time
12:52pm
Police motorcycle escort arriving at Doral.
https://twitter.com/KarliBonnita/status/1668659961801453569
1:33pm
Trump Motorcade heading to Miami Courthouse
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1668674339820953602
1:46pm
Trump posts to social media from motorcade
1:52pm
Trump arrives at Miami Courthouse
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1668678566731456512
https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1668678847191982080
2:14pm
Donald Trump formally arrested on federal charges, will appear before a judge shortly
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1668683739180703745
3:00pm
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Trump now in federal court
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Special Counsel Jack Smith is in attendance
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Trump pleads “not guilty” to all 37 federal charges
3:15pm
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Trump has been released without any travel conditions, as he is reportedly not a flight risk per the judge.
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The judge said that former President Trump could have no contact with any witnesses in the case
3:55pm
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Trump motorcade leaves courthouse through crowded streets
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Protesters, one wearing a prisoner costume, jump in front of Trump’s motorcade as he leaves court
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1668710687915253760
4:15pm
Trump makes a stop at Cafe Versailles after leaving courthouse
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1668715242019340288
5:00pm
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Trump departs Miami airport for New Jersey
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will deliver speech at 8pm from Bedminster
To play the Devil’s advocate: If you really believed the election was stolen, you’d sort of have to do something about it. It be a patriotic duty.
Imagine the timeline with Gore as POTUS
What we outside fail to realize is these people live in a wholly different reality.
I haven’t watched television with any ads in years. So when I go to a hotel and I’m lounging watching cable and seeing commercials it is jarring just what a different world it is from what I remember before. And for people who never left it, it isn’t jarring at all. It’s their normal.
Now imagine you only watched Fox or OANN. It’s your very reality that’s twisted all askew. It’s hard to hold that against many of the MAGA crowd and speaks to just how influential misinformation campaigns can be.
That’s the reality with my parents. They only watch FOX News. My father had claimed to have tried watching CNN (years ago before they started veering rightwards). He said he couldn’t watch their news because “they got it wrong.”
Why did my father think CNN got the stories wrong? Because FOX News reported A and therefore my father assumed A was true. When CNN reported B, then my father didn’t question if FOX was wrong. Instead, he just assumed that FOX was right and CNN was wrong. Since CNN was wrong about the news, my father didn’t see any reason to watch them and so he stayed with FOX. People get locked in and that becomes their only source of truth.
I try to get my news from a variety of sources. This way, no one news source could mislead me. If one source reports A, but 5 others report B, then chances are the truth is closer to B. (All other things being equal like source reliability.) Of course, my father claims that I’m brainwashed by listening to many different sources instead of just FOX News. Likely because that is what FOX told him is happening with me.
So when I go to a hotel and I’m lounging watching cable
Get yourself a Roku stick. Set it up at home and log into your streaming apps. Now any time you’re in a hotel you can just plug it into your hotel tv and bam, bye bye shitty hotel tv.
If I have to sit in the room for long enough I’m not watching TV anyway, I’m on my laptop or steam deck. Otherwise if I’m in a hotel room I’m somewhere I’d rather be out and about doing things anyway. Besides, as much as society’s reality is skewed by the inundation of commercials, so to is mine by not experiencing it like everyone else. So I try to, from time to time. See what the other side is seeing.
Except when the hotel blocks access to the HDMI. I stay at one hotel that built a whole box around the TV to prevent people from accessing the back and the cords. I ended up watching regular cable with commercials and saw so many right wing gun toting ads that wanted to drill a hole in my head. Fuck cable.
What we outside fail to realize is these people live in a wholly different reality.
This.
I passed a church today with a sign saying, “The Bible is the absolute truth!” I realized that anyone who truly believes that bullshit - enough to make it a statement outside their church - is completely divorced from sanity.
These people do not perceive reality. At all. They are locked in a deranged fantasy world in their heads. They are severely impaired and their news sources and pastors work full time to keep them mentally ill and absolutely incapable of understanding reality.
Sure, and that’s what’s so dangerous about Trump and the Republican party’s rhetoric surrounding the election. But you also have a patriotic duty to start with some actual solid evidence of the election being stolen. You don’t get absolved for playing out a “save the country” fantasy if it’s clearly based on, well, a fantasy.
All this was in motion long before the 2020 election. If you want to trace it back to an election it would be Nixon, he’s the entire reason Fox news and the far right movement exist at all, But there’s a reason they were already stooping to the level of breaking into the Watergate hotel in the first place. The whole alt-right movement has been a slow moving coup starting with Prescott Bush (Yes, that Bush) who invested heavily in the republican party and, coincidentally, also directly helped Hitler come into power in Germany.
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