Trump indictment: Trump to speak at Mar-a-Lago on day of expected arraignment

The chair of the House Intelligence Committee criticized the indictment Sunday and said the American people should "just let the criminal process play out."

"When this comes out and we finally get to see what’s happening, if this is politically motivated, this will be a shame on our criminal justice system,” Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I do think this is politically motivated," he said.

"It's one thing when you have a cancel culture, it's another when you have a cancel criminal justice system, and I hope that we're certainly not turning to that," Turner added.

Michael Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, said Sunday that his client had provided “substantial documentation” in the case against Trump.

“Cohen submitted a lot of documentation, not only to this group of prosecutors, but to the earlier group. And there are other documents from other people and other testimony from other people, some of it direct, involving conversations with Mr. Trump, concerning the Karen McDougal crime. Remember, there are two crimes here,” Davis said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“And so the answer is substantial documentation,” he added.

Cohen pleaded guilty and served prison time for campaign finance violations and other crimes for his role in hush money schemes to pay two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. The payment to former adult film star Stormy Daniels is at the center of the indictment.

With the charges still under seal, McDougal's involvement in the case is unclear. Cohen has said Trump directed him to pay Daniels during the 2016 campaign.

Trump departed his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, at 2:34 p.m. after having spent around five hours there Sunday.

As he left Trump International Golf Club for Mar-a-Lago, he was seen through the window of his SUV giving the thumbs up to a group of supporters who had gathered along the road.

Trump had also spent some of his Saturday at his golf club, departing in the late afternoon.

Former Attorney General William Barr said Sunday that he believes out of the various cases involving Trump, the federal investigation of his handling of classified documents will be his biggest legal woe.

“I think the document case is the most serious case,” Barr said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” “I don’t think they went after those documents to get Trump. I think they actually wanted the documents back.”

The FBI recovered a trove of top secret and other highly classified documents when it searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in August. Since then, Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate. Trump has denied any wrongdoing, having claimed last year that he can declassify documents “by thinking about it.”

Barr also weighed in on Trump's Manhattan grand jury indictment, saying he thinks it appears to be a “political” prosecution, joining allies of Trump who have sought to discredit the justice system ahead of Trump's expected arraignment.

Michael Cohen, the former Trump “fixer” who could be a key witness if the case moves to trial, predicted “complete and total mayhem” Sunday when his ex-boss is arraigned this week.

“This is his worst fear: being mugshotted, fingerprinted, being referred to as a felon,” Cohen said on CBS News’ “Sunday Morning.”

“I expect complete and total mayhem,” Cohen said, referring to Trump’s expected arraignment Tuesday. “He’s petrified.”

Cohen pleaded guilty to and served prison time for campaign finance violations and other crimes for his role in hush money schemes to pay two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. A payment to former adult film star Stormy Daniels is at the center of Trump’s indictment, although the exact charges are still unclear.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie weighed in Sunday for the first time on Trump's indictment by slamming the Trump campaign.

“All this bravado from the Trump camp is baloney,” Christie, a former prosecutor, said on ABC News’ “This Week.”

“He’s going to be charged officially on Tuesday. He’s going to have to be mugshotted, fingerprinted, and he’s going to face a criminal trial in Manhattan. He’s not gonna be able to avoid it. You can’t make that a good day,” he said.

Christie was once a staunch Trump ally, but he became a critic over Trump's baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.