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Former US President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, has pleaded not guilty after being accused of 34 felony counts, including falsifying business records, at a historic arraignment in New York. Trump, 76, is the first former president to face criminal charges. He was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury last week in a case stemming from a 2016 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Follow our blog for live coverage of his historic arraignment. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
9:10pm: Reactions to Trump’s arraignment
“A somber moment in the life of our country, when it’s necessary to arraign a former president on criminal charges,” Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat of California, tweeted as Trump entered his plea in New York.
“As the case falls to the DA to prove, we must recognize what is most important: Even the most powerful are held to account, and that nobody is above the law,” wrote Schiff, who was the lead prosecutor in the Senate impeachment trial of Trump in 2020.
Today is a somber day.
And I wanted to share some thoughts with you as we witness an American president arraigned on criminal charges:
Our democracy is fragile and depends on adherence to the rule of law, and the idea that no one is above the law.
— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) April 4, 2023
“Today is a bad day for all of us & we are all going to regret it for a very long time,” said Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican of Florida, in a video message posted on Twitter.
“Today we set the new normal that if you really want to take someone down, nothing should stop you. You should be able to manipulate the law anyway you want to charge someone,” Rubio said in a video posted on his…
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