All posts tagged "Arraignment"

WASHINGTON — The Trump circus is back to witness the former president, Donald Trump, make history again: One insurrection, two impeachments and now three separate arraignments on felony charges.

The former president himself is nowhere to be seen, having entered the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse through its parking garage.

But his divisive presence is everywhere. And for some, it’s a celebration — even as they don’t dare give reporter’s their last names out of fear of what they see as a standing threat from the MAGA mob....

MSNBC's Lisa Rubin was among those reporters that made it into the courtroom ahead of Donald Trump's plea, which means she had a lot of colorful details about the quick arraignment.

She posted a thread online before appearing on air, saying that his close aide Walt Nauta went from being a co-conspirator to a body man, to a defendant and then back to being a body man again.

"If Walt is the new [Allen] Weisselberg, as I have posited before, Molly Michael, who was Trump’s Oval Office executive assistant before moving down to FL with him, just might be the new Cassidy Hutchinson," she tweeted. "The indictment is doused with her texts with Nauta about the location and movement of boxes containing classified documents; she is the one who deemed them the 'beautiful mind boxes,' reflecting how well she understood his intermingling of the mundane and highly sensitive."...