Citing leaks from the Manhattan DA’s office the ex-President seems to be trying to blunt the annoucment …
Donald J. Trump will be the first ex-President to be indicted criminally after leaving office….
He will be charged with using cmpiagn money illegally to pay a women to NOT expose a affair he had with her a year after he married his current wife who was pregnant ….
This is the first of several criminal and civil cases coming his way State and Federal…
Trump will be asked to voluntarily show up** for arraignment which will include mug shots, and finger printing….It is unknown if a judge will aloow Trump to keepo his passport agaunst a flight risk…
Officals including the DA’s Office, New York City Police, Secret Service and Court Officers have worked on security planning for the show up, which should have a TON of media and could have Trump supporters and no-supporters…
This case is being tried New York City….
The jury poll comes from a place Trump and Republicans are not popular in….
Very few if any judges there are gonna be simpathedic to Trump usual stalling and personal attacks….
Former President Donald Trump said he expects to be arrested Tuesday in Manhattan — and urged his followers to protest his looming indictment.
The former president cited “ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE” in his Saturday morning post on Truth Social.
.”THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” he thundered in an all caps missive to his followers on Truth Social Saturday morning.
Trump is facing possible indictment over a $130,000 hush money payment he allegedly made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Daniels claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006, which Trump has denied.
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Law enforcement has been negotiating with the Secret Service over the terms and “logistics” of a possible arrest next week, Fox News reported. The event could potentially result in Trump being handcuffed, fingerprinted and escorted into court.
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QUOTE….”“Protest, take our nation back!” Trump continued, calling on supporters to protest his potential arrest….
I added the BOLD in Trump’s post from the linked Hill piece…..
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The Justice Department is STILL arresting and trying people from the Jan.6 protest/violence…
The New York City Police will certainly have the resources to handle protest’s for Trump’s arraignment ….
Update…
Donald Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina said his client will surrender without a physical altercation, the New York Daily News reports.
Said Tocopina: “There won’t be a standoff at Mar-a-Lago with Secret Service and the Manhattan DA’s office.”
Trump would be expected to travel to New York to enter a plea to the charges in person.
**Note…
NOT showing up could generate a arrest warrent that would compel Trump Secret Service to arrest him if FBI agents showed up….Faillure to act could have the detail agents arrested…
He’ll show up in Manhattan when he has to….
image…The Atlantic
This indictment will be a great political boon to Trump.
He will likely get a bump in his polls and Republicans ,both politicos and party members ,will rally to his side.