The planned surrender and arraignment of former President Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, after being indicted on criminal charges by a Manhattan grand jury, will be a “massive circus,” former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker told Newsmax Friday.

“It’s going be, I guess, just a massive circus,” Whitaker said during “Spicer & Co.” Friday. Everybody’s going to want to get into that courtroom, everyone’s going to want the court drawings of the president.

“Everyone’s going to want the mug shot, everybody’s going want every salacious detail, and I think, unfortunately, it’s going to take away from a very sober legal proceeding, and a very sad day in American history that we will probably look back [and see] as a black mark on the rule of law, and when prosecutors overstepped their discretion.”

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