Trump lashes out at judge as court confirms arraignment on Tuesday afternoon – live

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Speaking to The Times, Stormy Daniels says the threats against her are now worse and for the first time, she fears for her life.

“The number and the intensity is the same as it was the first time around, but this time it’s straight-up violent,” she says. “The first time it was ‘gold digger’, ‘slut’, ‘whore’, ‘liar’ whatever. And this time it’s ‘I’m gonna murder you’. They’re way more violent and graphic.”

Is she frightened? “For the first time ever, yeah. And part of me is hesitant to say that because you don’t want blood in the water. It kind of encourages the sharks.” But, she says, “it’s especially scary because Trump himself is inciting violence and encouraging it.”

Former President Donald Trump is in trouble. But Trumpism in the GOP is more powerful than ever. Bigotry, lies, conspiracy theories—even as Trump goes down, his style of rage, resentment, and hatred ascends in the party that elevated him, and which he now embodies.

Speaking to The Times, Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the centre of the case against former President Donald Trump said of the indictment:

“It’s vindication,” Daniels says, sounding cautious rather than triumphant. “But it’s bittersweet. He’s done so much worse that he should have been taken down [for] before. I am fully aware of the insanity of it being a porn star. But it’s also poetic; this pussy grabbed back.”

Despite being proud of seeing the case against Mr Trump this far, she adds a warning of what may happen next:

“It’s monumental and epic, and I’m proud,” Daniels says. “The other side of it is that it’s going to continue to divide people and bring them up in arms. He’s already gotten away with inciting a riot, and causing death and destruction.

“Whatever the outcome is, it’s going to cause violence, and there’s going to be injuries and death,” she says. “There’s the potential for a lot of good to come from this. But either way, a lot of bad is going to come from it, too.”

Eric Garcia speaks to analysts, campaigners, and Republicans themselves about whether it’s really true that the charges against the former president would help carry him to re-election.

In his latest screed on Truth Social, Donald Trump sets his sights on other perceived unfairness in the make-up of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, specifically Matthew Collangelo and former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.

He concludes with an all-caps: ELECTION INTERFERENCE, KANGAROO COURT!

Donald and Melania Trump stepped out at Mar-a-Lago last night hours after the news of the criminal indictment against the former president broke.

Maroosha Muzaffar reports on the scene inside and outside the Palm Beach estate.

Bill Kristol, neoconservative writer and editor-at-large of The Bulwark, hit out at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for his comments about how the state will not assist in the extradition of Donald Trump to New York to face charges.

Here’s what Mr DeSantis said, which many commentators have pointed out is unconstitutional as one state must respect the legal judgment of another state.

The former president has never said he would not appear before the New York court.

Mr Kristol told Scripps News: “DeSantis is just tossing this off. Obviously, it’s cheap and performative and it doesn’t mean much … He’s just grandstanding … It shows a real contempt for the rule of law in this country.”

Molly Crane-Newman, courts reporter for The New York Daily News, reports that Donald Trump is set to appear in the same 15th-floor courtroom where disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted in 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in prison. It’s also where the Trump Organization went on trial last winter.