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DONALD TRUMP PREPARES TO SURRENDER FOLLOWING HUSH-MONEY INDICTMENT IN NEW YORK

FORMER PRESIDENT CRITICIZES JUDGE EXPECTED TO PRESIDE OVER CASE

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New York officials and Donald Trump’s legal team began making preparations for
the former president to surrender Tuesday to face charges for his role in paying
hush money to a porn star, as one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers mounted a public
offensive against the indictment.

A grand jury handed up the indictment, sought by the office of Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg, on Thursday afternoon. The substance of the
charges aren’t public and are expected to remain sealed until Mr. Trump makes an
initial appearance in court, scheduled for 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday. He is first
expected to report to the district attorney’s office that morning, when he will
be arrested, fingerprinted and photographed.

Streets surrounding the lower Manhattan courthouse are also expected to be
blocked off, officials said. The U.S. Secret Service is expected to accompany
Mr. Trump during his time at the courthouse.

The former president has previously called on his supporters to protest, and
forecast “death & destruction,” but he hasn’t repeated such pitches since being
indicted. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.), one of his supporters,
wrote on Twitter that she would be there Tuesday.

A spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams said Friday that there are no credible threats
to New York City at this time.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said she spoke with Mr. Adams on
Thursday about Mr. Trump’s pending appearance and offered state resources to
help with security or crowd control. “This is not new to the NYPD, but I also
want to offer our assistance in any way they want to take advantage of it—our
State Police, the Guard, whatever they ask for,” she said.

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina appeared on major television networks to defend his
client from charges he said were unprecedented and unfair. He said there was
“zero” chance Mr. Trump would take a plea in the case, which centers on his role
in making a hush-money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election.

“It’s not going to happen,” Mr. Tacopina said on NBC’s “Today” show. “There’s no
crime. I don’t know if it’s going to make the trial because we have substantial
legal challenges that we have to front before we get to that point.”

Mr. Trump said Thursday night on his social-media network that the charges were
disgraceful and that he didn’t think he could get a fair trial in New York.

The former president and his allies were surprised by the timing of the
indictment. Advisers said they had viewed the timing of an upcoming planned
break for the grand jury as a sign that an indictment wouldn’t come for weeks,
if at all.

Mr. Trump, who dined Thursday night with his wife and friends at Mar-a-Lago in
Florida, had expressed optimism before the indictment that the case may be
falling apart—a notion supported by several of his advisers, according to people
familiar with the discussions.

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Having faced more than a dozen federal, congressional and state probes since
2016 made it easier for Mr. Trump and his allies to believe that an indictment
wouldn’t really come, said David Urban, a longtime Trump adviser.

“It’s like the boy who cries wolf,” he said. “They became numb to it because in
those instances, the wolf never came.”

Still, Mr. Trump has been unsettled for weeks by the prospect of being indicted,
advisers have said. As president, he relished the pomp and pageantry of his
office, offering up tours of the Oval Office and marveling at the elaborate
choreography of events at the White House and in meetings with counterparts
abroad. Advisers said they expected him to struggle with the notion of being
fingerprinted and having his mug shot taken—as one of his lawyers put it, “just
like anyone else.”

The case is expected to land in the court of Justice Juan Merchan, who presided
over the tax-fraud trial against the Trump Organization last year.

A jury found that the company engaged in an off-the-books compensation scheme to
pay some executives in car leases, apartments and cash. Justice Merchan
sentenced the Trump Organization’s former chief financial officer, Allen
Weisselberg, to five months in jail for his role in the scheme. Mr. Weisselberg,
who pleaded guilty and testified against the company, is due to be released next
month.

Justice Merchan has handled felony trials since 2009. He previously worked in
the New York attorney general’s office and in the Manhattan district attorney’s
office.

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Mr. Trump has already begun laying the foundation for an argument that the judge
wouldn’t give him a fair shake.

“The Judge ‘assigned’ to my Witch Hunt Case, a ‘Case’ that has NEVER BEEN
CHARGED BEFORE, HATES ME,” Mr. Trump wrote in a post on his social-media site on
Friday morning. He said Justice Merchan treated the Trump Organization
“VICIOUSLY” in the fraud trial.

Mr. Trump’s attacks on Justice Merchan are outside the legal norm, but he has a
history of criticizing judges in his cases. In 2016, Mr. Trump said a judge
presiding over fraud lawsuits against Trump University had a conflict of
interest because of his “Mexican heritage.” Mr. Trump later settled the suits.
Mr. Trump, as president, also disparaged judges who ruled against Trump
administration policies. He called a California-based federal appeals court “a
disgrace.”

A New York state courts spokesman declined to comment.

Mr. Bragg’s office on Friday sent a letter to the Republican chairs of three
U.S. House committees who have criticized the investigation into Mr. Trump and
demanded documents about the probe. Mr. Bragg’s general counsel said in the
letter that the lawmakers’ actions were improper.

“Based on your reportedly close collaboration with Mr. Trump in attacking this
Office and the grand jury process, it appears you are acting more like criminal
defense counsel trying to gather evidence for a client than a legislative body
seeking to achieve a legitimate legislative objective,” the letter said.

A spokesman for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) didn’t
respond to a request for comment.

The Manhattan grand jury that voted to indict Mr. Trump had been hearing
testimony since late January about his role in a $130,000 payment to porn star
Stormy Daniels.

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Mr. Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, wired the money to Ms. Daniels in the
final stretch of Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. In return, she agreed
to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump a decade earlier.
Mr. Trump denies the sexual encounter. Mr. Cohen has said that Mr. Trump
directed him to pay Ms. Daniels.

Mr. Trump reimbursed Mr. Cohen in 2017 in monthly installments. The Trump
Organization’s records falsely reflected the payments to Mr. Cohen as legal
expenses, federal prosecutors alleged in a 2018 case against Mr. Cohen.

The grand jury also heard detailed accounts of a separate $150,000 payment to a
former Playboy model who alleged that she had a 10-month affair with the former
president, people familiar with the matter said. That payment was made by the
publisher of the National Enquirer in August 2016 to Karen McDougal.

American Media Inc., long allied with Mr. Trump, bought the rights to Ms.
McDougal’s story of the affair and then sat on them, preventing her from going
public. Mr. Trump also denies he had an affair with Ms. McDougal. David Pecker,
the former chief executive of American Media, told the grand jury that Mr. Trump
appealed to him directly to buy Ms. McDougal’s story, the people said.

—Alex Leary and Jimmy Vielkind contributed to this article.

Write to Corinne Ramey at corinne.ramey@wsj.com, Joe Palazzolo at
Joe.Palazzolo@wsj.com and Rebecca Ballhaus at rebecca.ballhaus@wsj.com

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