donald trump He left his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida on Monday to travel to New York, where Tuesday appears before a judge in Manhattan for criminal offenses related to a payment to buy a porn actress’s silence during the 2016 election campaign.

Trump left his mansion, followed by a motorcade of a dozen vehicles.

In New York, Trump Tower is on 5th Avenue, where the media say the Republican will spend the night, It is surrounded by police buses that are on high alert in anticipation of possible disturbances.

“I will go to court, believe it or not. America shouldn’t have been like this!” Trump wrote on the Truth Social network, who will be the first former president of the United States to testify in court as a defendant.

“The corrupt prosecutor has no case”, he said of the man who is suing him. “What it does have is a jurisdiction where it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to have a fair trial,” he added when announcing his trip to his hometown of New York.

On Tuesday, as part of his arraignment, he will undergo standard fingerprinting and photographic procedures, likely resulting in one of the most famous mugshots of modern times, he said. ep.

Then he will appear before the judge of Colombian origin Juan Mercchán, who will read to him the charges, still reserved, that are imputed to him, about thirty, This is reported by some local media.

Trump will plead not guilty, according to his lawyers, so the case is heading towards a trial.

The instruction revolves around the $130,000 paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to buy her silence over an alleged extramarital affair that took place a decade earlier, something Trump has always denied.