Secret Service needed more time to prepare, according to the ex-president’s legal team.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office asked for Donald Trump to surrender on Friday following a grand jury’s vote to indict the former president.
But lawyers for Trump rebuffed the request saying that the Secret Service, which provides security detail for the former president, needed more time to prepare.
The exchange, which was relayed to POLITICO by a law-enforcement source and confirmed by Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for the former president, underscores the extremely delicate, unprecedented nature of the indictment. Until Thursday, no ex-president in history had been criminally charged. And both the charges itself and the application of them have placed the country on uncharted legal and political terrain.
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Trump is expected to surrender to the Manhattan D.A.’s office, but Tacopina said that no precise date had been set for it. Ultimately the Secret Service will have to coordinate the conditions of the surrender with court officials and the New York Police Department.
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The Manhattan DA's office asked for Trump to surrender on Friday following his indictment, but the former president's lawyers refused, saying the Secret Service needed more time to prepare. https://t.co/CC5zdBon14
— POLITICO (@politico) March 30, 2023
NEW: DeSantis: Florida won’t cooperate with Trump extradition https://t.co/n5gH8m1upU pic.twitter.com/JoKoaNrI5F
— The Hill (@thehill) March 30, 2023
Empty, but dangerous, posturing. Trump is likely to surrender to the DA, but even if he doesn’t, DeSantis doesn’t have the power to block extradition. The Constitution and federal statutes compel it.
But giving the mob false hope can be dangerous, as we learned on Jan 6. https://t.co/7qNPfzAYBy
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 30, 2023
Using “Mr.” instead of “Former President” has to sting https://t.co/XZFCDGIffe
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) March 30, 2023
I guess the plane has to be fueled, the fake passport manufactured and the dacha in Russia readied.
Ok, maybe they are looking for a less public way for Trump to surrender, perhaps late at night when most people will be sleeping.
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