Former President Donald Trump is unlikely to be handcuffed if he's arrested, according to a Florida prosecutor who said the Secret Service wouldn't "allow local law enforcement to put their hands on the former president."
Trump said last week that he expects to be indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump's attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told Newsmax he expects police to handcuff Trump during an arrest.
"I had this idea in my head that they'd [prosecutors] be dumb enough — if he [Trump] were indicted — to actually try to cuff him and walk him. And then we can see how far we've really devolved in this country," Tacopina said on "Rob Schmitt Tonight" on Monday. "I think that's what they're going to try to do."
However, Dave Aronberg, state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, told Scripps News this week: "The Secret Service is not going to allow local law enforcement to put their hands on the former president."
Aronberg added: "So what they'll do is Trump would conceivably surrender to New York, go up to New York with Secret Service, and then get processed up there, get fingerprinted, get his mugshot, and then get released without any cash bail. Just being released on his own recognizance."
Aronberg told WPBF in Florida on Tuesday that he's "always thought an indictment of the former president is likely because you have four investigations into his alleged criminal conduct, but I think the New York case is actually the least of the four, but it's the one that's going to go first, and New York prosecutors have given every indication that it's coming later this week."