The Miami police and firefighters have begun to close or limit traffic in the city center in view of the demonstrations that will take place this Tuesday during the reading of the 37 charges against former President Donald Trump for the case of the documentation that was classified that he hid in his West Palm Beach home, after leading her out of the White House.
This Monday there were dozens of his followers outside the federal court in downtown Miami. With banners and flags advocating Trump’s victory in the 2024 elections, the protesters were closely followed by police officers. There were no arrests or disturbances.
“We do not know the size of the protest,” said the mayor of the city, Francis Suárez, at a press conference, for whom drivers must expect traffic interruptions this Tuesday.
Beside him, Miami Police Chief Manuel A. Morales stressed that police officers were working with local, state and federal partners, and that final decisions on street closures would be made in the command center. and will depend on the size of the crowd in the area.
“We know there is a chance things could get worse,” he said, adding that the city was “ready” for “heavy” traffic.
On Sunday, in a radio interview On ABC, Trump called on his supporters to demonstrate during Tuesday’s hearing. “They have to come out and they have to protest peacefully.”
After a jury indicted him Friday for mishandling classified documents, William Barr, Trump’s former attorney general, appeared on Fox News to say the former president had no right to keep the documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence or any other place. “If at least half of that is true, then you’re done,” he said.
Prosecutor Jack Smith announced the indictment Friday and included photos of the classified documents stored in cardboard boxes, this time near a toilet and shower in a bathroom, on a ballroom stage, in an office, in a bedroom and in a storage room.
“I don’t want anybody looking, I don’t want anybody looking at my boxes, I really don’t,” Trump told one of his lawyers, according to the indictment. “I don’t want my boxes searched!”
Trump is the first former president in US history to be federally indicted. He faces 37 counts of willful withholding of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding of documents or records, unlawful concealment of a document or record, concealment of documents in a federal investigation, planning to conceal them, and making false statements.
