Trump indictment updates: Trump speaks out on charges from Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump is the first former U.S. president to be indicted.

Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, after being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury last week.

He is the first former U.S. president to be indicted.

For previous coverage, please click here.


0

Trump lands in New York City

Former President Donald Trump has just touched down in New York, ahead of his arraignment Tuesday.

Trump's plane landed at LaGuardia Airport, and is now expected to head to Trump Tower.

-ABC News' Olivia Rubin


Trump opposes cameras in court

Former President Donald Trump on Monday opposed the presence of cameras in the courtroom for his Tuesday arraignment.

"It will create a circus-like atmosphere at the arraignment, raise unique security concerns, and is inconsistent with President Trump’s presumption of innocence," Trump’s attorney Susan Necheles said.

A coalition of news organizations, including ABC News, has filed motions with the court, seeking access to cover and record the hearing Tuesday.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office declined to take a position on the matter.

Judge Juan Merchan has not yet ruled.

-ABC News' Josh Margolin


Trump expands legal team with top white-collar defense attorney

Former President Donald Trump is expanding his legal team, hiring a former federal prosecutor and white-collar defense attorney to lead his defense ahead of Tuesday's arraignment, sources said.

Todd Blanche, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, recently resigned from his law firm to take on this new role, according to sources. Blanche has represented high-profile clients like Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, and Igor Fruman, an ex-associate to Rudy Giuliani.

Blanche is expected to travel with Trump from Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan to the courthouse in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, the sources said. Blanche didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

-ABC News' John Santucci and Katherine Faulders


Trump en route to New York

Former President Donald Trump has departed Florida's Palm Beach International Airport bound for New York City.

Dozens of Trump supporters lined the streets to cheer the former president on as his motorcade headed to the airport.

Some wore shirts saying, "Trump did nothing wrong."

"People want to support [Trump] because, basically, they see him as an underdog at this point, and which he is," Whit Taylor told ABC News as he watched the motorcade. "He’s being harassed and pushed around by people who are just haters. I mean that’s the bottom line -- they just hate people."

Trump is expected to stay in Manhattan Monday night before appearing in court for an arraignment on Tuesday.


Indictment unsealed

The indictment against former President Donald Trump has been unsealed.

Prosecutors allege Trump "employed a 'catch and kill' scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects," and "went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws."

Prosecutors allege, "In one instance, American Media Inc. ('AMI'), paid $30,000 to a former Trump Tower doorman, who claimed to have a story about a child TRUMP had out of wedlock," though the story wasn't true.

"The People of the State of New York allege that Donald J. Trump repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. "The trail of money and lies exposes a pattern that, the People allege, violates one of New York’s basic and fundamental business laws."