new yorkpalm beach former us president donald trump is set to fly from florida to new york city on monday ahead of his scheduled arraignment related to hush money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election as security tightens in manhattantrump the first former us president to face criminal charges is due to be arraigned fingerprinted and photographed at the downtown manhattan courthouse on tuesday his lawyers have said he will enter a plea of not guiltythe specific charges included in the grand jury indictment have not been disclosed tuesdays arraignment marks trumps first appearance in court and in front of a judge in the casein a social media post late on sunday trump said he planned to leave his maralago estate in palm beach at noon for the trump tower in manhattan before heading to the courthouse on tuesday morninga court official said the arraignment was planned for 215 pm 1815 gmt on tuesday trump then will return to florida and deliver remarks at maralago at 815 pm on tuesday 0015 gmt on wednesday his office saidnew york police over the weekend began erecting barricades along the edge of the sidewalks around trump tower and the manhattan criminal court building downtowndemonstrations are expected at those sites and police vowed to be prepared officers have been placed on alert and the department remains ready to respond as needed and will ensure everyone is able to peacefully exercise their rights the new york police department said in a statementother courtrooms on the courthouses higher floors will be shut down before the arraignment as part of the security precautions a court official saidus representative marjorie taylor greene tweeted an invitation on sunday to join her at a protest near the courthouse on tuesday echoing trumps pinned post on truth social theyre not coming after president trump theyre coming after us hes just in their waytrump lawyers hope to dismissbefore the indictment the grand jury heard evidence about a 130000 payment to adult film actress stormy daniels in the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign daniels has said she was paid to keep silent about a sexual encounter she had with trump at a lake tahoe hotel in 2006 trump denies the affairtrump 76 served as president from 2017 to 2021 and in november launched a bid to regain the presidency in 2024 aiming to deny democratic president joe biden a second term in officeword of the indictment arising from an investigation led by manhattan district attorney alvin bragg surfaced last thursday trump has called himself innocent and he and his allies have portrayed the charges as politically motivated bragg is a democratthe new york case is just one of many probes facing the republican as he makes another run at the white house a prosecutor in georgia is investigating trumps alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in that statethe us justice department is investigating both trumps actions in the 2020 election and his retention of highly classified