Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to turn himself in for arraignment in Miami on Tuesday and expected to plead not guilty to the 37 felony counts detailed in a Justice Department indictment unsealed Friday. Trump spent the weekend proclaiming his innocence and attacking the investigation, but most legal experts — including some who previously defended Trump — say this indictment is serious, substantial and a real threat to the former president.
It's important to hear Trump's legal defense, but "if even half" of the indictment's charges are "true, then he's toast," former Attorney General William Barr told Fox News Sunday. "It's a very detailed indictment and it's very, very damning. And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, a victim of a 'witch hunt,' is ridiculous."
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