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How did TV cover Trump's arraignment? It depends on whom you watched

Former U.S. president Donald Trump appears in court at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.

NEW YORK — The arraignment of former President Trump in a Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday created one of those increasingly rare collective TV viewing experiences with every cable news channel and broadcast network focused on the proceedings.

The day was saturated with images of Trump's motorcade making the 4-mile drive down FDR Drive from Trump Tower to the criminal courthouse in downtown Manhattan, where he was arraigned and entered a not guilty plea on 34 felony counts related to alleged hush money payments to a porn star with whom he allegedly had an affair.

It was the most historic and somber video of a living president since Richard Nixon departed from the the morning after he resigned from office in 1974.

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