Washington: Former president Donald Trump is expected to appear in the US federal courthouse at the foot of Capitol Hill, the site of a lengthy government effort to hold accountable those who tried to subvert democracy.
Trump’s appearance before Moxila A Upadhyaya, a federal judge, in the early hours of Friday Australian time, comes about six weeks after his arraignment in Miami on charges of mishandling government documents after he left the White House and seeking to block investigators.
Trump on his way to court in Miami, Florida in June, 2023. Credit: AP
His second federal indictment is likely to follow a cadence similar to his first.
The former president will fly down on his private jet from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. He is expected to arrive at the E Barrett Prettyman courthouse, the venue for dozens of trials stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
The US Marshals Service, which is responsible for security inside federal courthouses, will escort him to an area where he will be booked, for a third time this year. (He was arraigned in New York in the spring in connection with a hush-money payment to a pornographic actress before the 2016 election.)
The sheriff in Fulton County, Georgia, where another potential indictment connected to Trump’s efforts to undermine the 2020 election looms, has suggested that if Trump is charged, he will be processed like anybody else, mug shot and all.
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That will not happen Thursday: The marshals did not photograph Trump in Miami, and they will not take his picture in Washington, according to a law enforcement official involved in the planning.
But federal rules dictate that an accused person be reprocessed in each jurisdiction in which he or she faces charges, so Trump will have to be fingerprinted for a second time using an electronic scanning device. He is also expected to answer a series of intake questions that include personal details, such as his age.
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