Secret Service tours N.Y. courthouse to prepare for Trump arraignment

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Former president Donald Trump plans to fly to New York on Monday and stay overnight before appearing in a specially secured Manhattan courthouse to be arraigned on still-unspecified criminal charges, people briefed on the arrangements said.

The first-ever indictment of a former president — who is also a 2024 White House hopeful — brings unusual security challenges to the courthouse complex in Lower Manhattan, even as it continues to roil the political landscape.

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The next step in the criminal proceeding is Trump’s surrender, which multiple people involved with the plans have said will happen on Tuesday afternoon. The former president will be fingerprinted, photographed and brought to the courtroom of Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan for an arraignment, which is a brief hearing where the defendant generally enters a not-guilty plea. If the charges have not already been made public, they will be unsealed by the time of the arraignment.

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In securing Trump’s safety, Secret Service agents will be primarily responsible for his entry to and exit from the courthouse, the official said. Court security officers will manage the former president’s movements inside the building, in the company of Trump’s security detail, and New York police officers will secure the outside streets surrounding the courthouse and along Trump’s motorcade route through the city.

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