Trump arraignment process begins.

Donald Trump is scheduled to go to New York on Monday for his historic criminal arraignment, entering the presidency and the United States into unknown and perhaps explosive territory.

A grand jury last week indicted the 76-year-old millionaire on several counts relating to hush money given to an adult film star during the 2016 election.

The first serving or former US president to be accused with a felony is the provocateur from the Republican Party who has already declared his candidacy for president in 2024.

Trump will leave his Florida home of Mar-a-Lago and fly to his previous operational headquarters in New York on Monday, according to his advisors.

Trump will leave his Florida home of Mar-a-Lago and fly to New York on Monday, according to his aides, where he previously had a base of operations.

He will be fingerprinted and photographed there as part of his arraignment, which is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. This will probably result in one of the most well-known mugshots of the modern era.

Trump, who will address the nation in a speech from Florida on Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. (00:15 GMT Wednesday), called the legal proceedings a “witch hunt” and “political persecution,” and he attacked the judge chosen to preside over them.

It remains to be seen if the infamously unpredictable Trump would stick to the plan or find a way to turn things around.