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Former president Donald Trump warned early Friday of “potential death & destruction” if he is charged in Manhattan in a criminal case related to alleged hush-money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels to conceal an affair.

The posting after midnight on Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform, was his latest — and most explicit — allusion to violence that could follow an indictment stemming from an investigation led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), whom Trump called a “degenerate psychopath.”

Trump wrote: “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 it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”

In a post on Thursday, Trump criticized those who have called for his supporters to remain peaceful. Over the weekend, Trump urged a “PROTEST” over his potential arrest in the case, which he wrongly predicted would happen Tuesday.

The messages have all had echoes of the days leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. Trump had urged his followers to assemble in Washington that day, saying “Be there, will be wild!” as he pushed to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win.

The attack resulted in five deaths, and 140 police officers were injured. The House impeached Trump on a charge of inciting an insurrection; the Senate acquitted him.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) castigated Trump on Friday for his latest comments, echoing criticism from other Democrats.

“The twice-impeached former president’s rhetoric is reckless, reprehensible and irresponsible,” Jeffries said at a news conference. “It’s dangerous. And if he keeps it up, he’s going to get someone killed.”

“We’ve already seen the consequences of incitement from the former president,” Jeffries added. “He is principally responsible for inciting the violent insurrection that happened on Jan. 6, but clearly he has not learned his lesson.”

Trump has been commenting frequently on the hush-money case as a Manhattan grand jury weighs evidence against him. The panel is not scheduled to meet again until at least Monday, according to people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss proceedings that are secret.

Prosecutors from Bragg’s office have been presenting grand jurors with evidence related to hush-money payments to Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. The payments were aimed at keeping her from airing her claim that she had a sexual relationship with Trump years earlier, prosecutors say.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Friday. (Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post)

According to prosecutors, Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer. Trump reimbursed him after becoming president, in installments that were designated as legal fees.

Hours after Trump’s tweet, Bragg said an envelope with a white substance was sent to the district attorney’s office, according to an email to staff Friday afternoon. The material was determined not to be dangerous.

“Your safety is our top priority,” Bragg wrote in the email, in which he also described the staff receiving “offensive or threatening phone calls or emails.”

As he did in a message to staff this past week, Bragg indicated that the office would press ahead. “We will continue to apply the law evenly and fairly, which is what each of you does every single day,” he said.

The New York Daily News first reported on the Bragg message to staff.

During his social media barrage of the past two days, Trump shared a right-wing publication’s image of him holding a baseball bat alongside a picture of Bragg’s head. Almost instantly, extremism trackers say, supporters were cracking jokes about physically attacking Bragg. “Batter up!” one post said.

“You take the image of him with the bat and now the next day it’s followed with actual words: violence, destruction. His base of supporters are connecting the dots,” said Pete Simi, an extremism scholar who studies threats to public officials with the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center, or NCITE, a Homeland Security research outpost in Omaha.

Several Republicans rejected political violence but were careful not to specifically criticize Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

On Friday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said he had not heard Trump’s comments, but he said, “There’s no place in America for political violence of any kind.”

“I’ve been saying that for years, and I think everybody ought to take that position,” said Scalise, who was seriously injured in a politically motivated shooting in 2017 at a practice for the annual Congressional Baseball Game.

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), chairman of the Republican Main Street caucus, said, “In our system of government … you should never call for violence. So, you know, we need to do better.”

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said, “I’m all for peaceful protests, but peaceful protests. No violence.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), when asked about Trump’s latest comments Friday, said he had spoken about the issue already previously, and proceeded to talk about an upcoming House vote on education legislation.

McCarthy has slammed Bragg’s investigation, but he said Sunday that supporters of Trump should not protest if the former president is indicted.

“Nobody should harm one another,” McCarthy said, following Trump’s call for protests. “We want calmness out there.”

For his part, Trump resumed commentary on the case on Truth Social about eight hours after his overnight post.

“PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT!” he wrote in all caps shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern time.

Trump will have another opportunity to criticize Bragg and other state and federal prosecutors investigating his conduct on Saturday when he appears at a rally scheduled in Waco, Tex.

Nearly 30 years ago, a lengthy standoff between a religious cult and federal agents in Waco ended on April 19, 1993, when the group’s compound near the city was destroyed in a fire. Nearly 80 people were killed.

Extremism monitors said the attacks on Bragg are alarming even against Trump’s long record of whipping up outrage among supporters and then directing that fury toward his enemies. Together with the “apocalyptic” symbolism of choosing Waco as a rally site, analysts said, Trump’s already thin veneer of plausible deniability is vanishing into unmistakable calls for violence.

Steven Windisch, assistant professor of criminal justice at Temple University in Philadelphia, is co-author of another NCITE research project that aims to pinpoint where political speech crosses into threats of violence. He tracked Google searches for Bragg before and after he landed in Trump’s crosshairs and found sharp increases timed to the publication of Trump’s most incendiary posts.

“The fact that (Bragg) is trending is not surprising,” Windisch said. “What’s surprising is the combination of what’s being searched: his address, his home and his phone, and general contact information. We even saw one spike where it was his family.”

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First in to defend your boi?

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Do better. We want articles about the current president and his grift empire. No one wants this TDS crap.

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The main takeaway here is that Trump set himself up to be the fall guy for anything that happens after his arrest.  If/when he gets arrested there will be some "spook directed/manufactured" mayhem across the country and the globohomo media/Democrats will be crying "TERRORIST TRUMP!!!" because of his statements.  :niterider:

 

 

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2 hours ago, SackMan518 said:

Do better. We want articles about the current president and his grift empire. No one wants this TDS crap.

Your side does a good enough job of that. I'll stick to pointing out Trump's crimes and corruption. Speaking of grifting, how much you donate to Trump's legal defense this month?

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5 hours ago, HipKat said:

Your side does a good enough job of that. I'll stick to pointing out Trump's crimes and corruption. Speaking of grifting, how much you donate to Trump's legal defense this month?

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2 hours ago, Nuke said:

So in other words, you’re happy sticking to your political bias talking points. Got it. As far as Trump? I think most of America wishes he just move on and go away. I know I am. As far as protests if he is indicted? It’s already been proven that the white middle class is no good at protesting. Things like jobs and families are a real hindrance. Leave the protesting to the whinny crybaby fags that are good at it. 

You mean the type of people that are “only stealing from people on a daily basis due to their dire situations”?! “They needed it more than you did”, “they aren’t to blame” 🤷‍♂️....🥴

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2 hours ago, Nuke said:

So in other words, you’re happy sticking to your political bias talking points. Got it. As far as Trump? I think most of America wishes he just move on and go away. I know I am. As far as protests if he is indicted? It’s already been proven that the white middle class is no good at protesting. Things like jobs and families are a real hindrance. Leave the protesting to the whinny crybaby fags that are good at it. 

I'm good with that. The absurdity of all of this is intentionally vilifying Trump but siding with most every other RW topic - economy, border, gender issues, gun ownership, etc and seeing how that alliance on those issues is obscured by the constant attacks I take, just because I hate Trump.

It shows where the real devotions are. Out of all the people on the Right, ironically, the only one who has not used Trump to stay my opponent is Bowman, Toofast and LIBills.

Sack, Philly and Rich just cannot see past their love of Trump to accept we're just not going to agree on everything and my hatred of Trump and the MAGA's is more important than anything else.

 

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14 minutes ago, Very Wide Right said:

TDS ALERT 

Looking in the mirror, homey?

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22 minutes ago, SackMan518 said:

It's not Trump himself, he's just the spearhead of our ideology which is at its core "America First" also known as Nationalism. If he suddenly died today and a successor came into play we'd be behind them too. As much as you think it's a cult of personality (because that's how the media paints it) we realize he's a man with his own faults and don't venerate him as a saint. However, we do enjoy how he hammers back at the media and politicians after dealing with spineless GOPE losers.

So your idea of America first is being divided and manipulated into believing Americans with a different political POV are your enemy, scammed into sending in every dollar possible to Trump's various "funds" which he misappropriates, and lied to, consistently and constantly.

OK, got it.

PS: Inability to ever find fault with the man beyond his mouth is venerating him as a Saint

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10 minutes ago, HipKat said:

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12 hours ago, SackMan518 said:

Do better. We want articles about the current president and his grift empire. No one wants this TDS crap.

Fuck your TDS bullshit!  The only ones with TDS are the halfwits like yourself who still pay homage to him despite his having over 30,0000 itemized times he lied to the American public. It's like he once said , he could kill someone in Times Square in broad daylight and still get away with it.

Christ almighty you wing nuts don't even believe your own networks news people when they they tell you the truth and admit they have been lying about the election  from the moment Trump lost.

Talk about TDS!  

FK you and grow TF up. 

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21 minutes ago, micknaboz said:

Fuck your TDS bullshit!  The only ones with TDS are the halfwits like yourself who still pay homage to him despite his having over 30,0000 itemized times he lied to the American public. It's like he once said , he could kill someone in Times Square in broad daylight and still get away with it.

Christ almighty you wing nuts don't even believe your own networks news people when they they tell you the truth and admit they have been lying about the election  from the moment Trump lost.

Talk about TDS!  

FK you and grow TF up. 

GET A CLUE errrrrrrrrrr, I mean A JOB LOSER

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51 minutes ago, SackMan518 said:

This is what you sound like.

When your only rebuttal is the same one word response in a Trump meme, what do you expect?

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29 minutes ago, micknaboz said:

Fuck your TDS bullshit!  The only ones with TDS are the halfwits like yourself who still pay homage to him despite his having over 30,0000 itemized times he lied to the American public. It's like he once said , he could kill someone in Times Square in broad daylight and still get away with it.

Christ almighty you wing nuts don't even believe your own networks news people when they they tell you the truth and admit they have been lying about the election  from the moment Trump lost.

Talk about TDS!  

FK you and grow TF up. 

Actually, it was 5th Ave! But good motivational speech, bud

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