Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 4 April 2023

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1. Trump prepares for arraignment

Donald Trump has been taking legal advice at Trump Tower in New York City as he prepares to face criminal charges over hush money paid just before the 2016 election to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who says they had sex. At his arraignment this afternoon, he is expected to be photographed and fingerprinted, but is not expected to be handcuffed. Trump’s lawyers opposed photography and radio coverage of the arraignment, saying it would “exacerbate an already almost circus-like atmosphere around this case”. He denies wrongdoing.

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