Trump will surrender to face charges if indicted, defense lawyer says

Former President Donald Trump volition travel the mean process of surrendering to look criminal charges if indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, his lawyer said Friday evening.

The lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, spoke connected the heels of a study by WNBC that federal, authorities and section instrumentality enforcement agencies are preparing information arrangements for the anticipation that Trump volition beryllium indicted arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week.

"Will travel mean procedures if it gets to that point," Tacopina told CNBC erstwhile asked what Trump would bash if that anticipation becomes reality.

Trump is nether transgression probe by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office successful transportation to a hush wealth outgo his erstwhile idiosyncratic lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn prima Stormy Daniels soon earlier the 2016 statesmanlike election.

Ever since the expansive assemblage was empaneled successful caller months, and the perceived likelihood of an indictment grew, questions person been raised astir whether Trump would defy surrendering if charged, and what would hap if helium did so.

Trump, who has 24-hour extortion by the U.S. Secret Service, presently resides astatine his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach, Florida, which helium seldom leaves.

Under Florida law, the state's politician is liable for making definite a idiosyncratic successful the authorities is arrested and delivered to different authorities if that idiosyncratic is indicted connected a felony charge. However, Florida instrumentality besides gives the politician the powerfulness to telephone for a further probe earlier a suspect is extradited, if that suspect refuses to comply with extradition.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis presently is positioning himself arsenic a apt contender for the 2024 Republican statesmanlike nomination.

Trump declared himself arsenic a campaigner for the GOP information past fall.

Even earlier that Trump and his allies person chafed astatine DeSantis' popularity among chap Republicans.

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