Former U.S. President Donald Trump threatened “death & destruction” if he is charged for paying porn star Stormy Daniels hush money hours after New York prosecutors declared they would not be intimidated.
Since last Saturday, when Trump incorrectly predicted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s arrest three days later, Trump’s Truth Social networking site has verbally attacked him.
Trump erroneously claims his 2020 defeat was due to fraud, which motivated his followers to launch a violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to block Congress from certifying Democratic President Joseph Biden’s victory, which defeated Trump by more than 7 million votes.
“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when all know that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?” wrote 2024 GOP presidential candidate Trump.
On Thursday, Bragg’s office wrote to Republican committee chairmen that Trump’s Saturday statement “raised a misleading expectation that he would be jailed” and questioned their investigation authority.
The letter branded the chairmen’s request for communications, records, and testimony “unlawful encroachment into New York’s sovereignty.”
Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford), an adult film actress and director, claims she got the money to be silent about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump.
Trump characterized the payment “simple private transaction” and denied having an affair with Daniels. He denies wrongdoing and calls the probe politically motivated.
Trump’s Manhattan grand jury will meet next week.
A federal special counsel is examining Trump’s attempts to reverse his election loss and the removal of confidential information from the White House after he left office. Georgia prosecutors are also investigating.
Thirty years after federal authorities raided the Branch Davidians religious group in Waco, Texas, killing 86 people, including four police officers, Trump will host a campaign rally there on Saturday.
Some right-wing extremists consider the event a defining moment of government overreach.
In an email, a Trump campaign official said Waco was picked because it is between three major population centers and has the infrastructure to host a huge gathering.
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