Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he expects to be arrested Tuesday by New York prosecutors in a case over hush money to a porn star and called for Americans to protest and "take back our nation."
Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, slamming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a post that used all capital letters for trying to indict a former president rather than focus on rising crime in America's largest city.
"Now illegal leaks from a corrupt & highly political Manhattan district attorneys office, which has allowed new records to be set in violent crime & whose leader is funded by George Soros, indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven, & based on an old & fully debunked (by numerous other prosecutors!) fairytale, the far & away leading Republican candidate & former president of the United States of America, will be arrested on Tuesday of next week," Trump wrote.
"Protest, take our nation back!" he added.
If Trump's prediction is correct, the nation is headed to a moment never before experienced, not even under Richard Nixon or Andrew Johnson. No former president has ever been prosecuted in American history.
Political experts have predicted a Trump indictment would galvanize an already bitter divide in America between liberals who see Trump unfit to lead and conservatives who see the 75-year-old former president as a successful leader who has been unfairly tarred by "banana Republic" smear tactics from Democrats and ideological bureaucrats in the law enforcement and intelligence world.
Law enforcement officials began quietly making security arrangements for an indictment later this week.
Danielle Filson, a spokeswoman for the district attorney, told The Associated Press that Bragg's office “will decline to confirm or comment” on questions pertaining to Trump’s post.
Trump has said he will continue to run for president in 2024 even if he i charged and has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, calling the probe a "witchhunt" by a Democrat prosecutor.
A grand jury in Manhattan has been soliciting testimony from witnesses, including disgraced former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who alleges he aranged payments in 2016 to two women to silence them about sexual encounters they claimed to have with Trump a decade earlier.
Cohen -- who has pleaded guilty to crimes, served prison time and was disbarred -- alleges he arranged payments totaling $280,000 to porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. Cohen claims the payments were hush money to buy the women's silence as made his first run for office in 2016.
Legal experts like Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz have raised concerns about the legal merits of the case. Prosecutors would also face questions about a case built upon the testimonies of a porn star, and the work of two disgraced lawyers. In addition to Cohen, Daniels' former lawyer, Michael Avennati, also has been convicted of crimes.
One of the challenges for prosecutors is that Cohen, who has admitted in federal court to false statement to Congress, played a central role in the payments.
Joe Tacopina, Trump's lawyers in the case, signaled a likely defense strategy in a TV interview last week, suggesting that Daniels demanded "extortion" money from Trump and that Cohen advised the strategy to use.
Cohen is a "fraud, a liar" and "was his lawyer at the time and advised him that this was the proper way to do this to protect himself and his family from embarrassment. It is simple as that," Tacopina told MSNBC recently.
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March 18, 2023, 11:03 AM
sdy
Fox: Trump may be HANDCUFFED and arrested next week
Elon Musk: If this happens, Trump will be re-elected in a landslide victory
March 18, 2023, 11:21 AM
Hildur
Every time they try to strike him down, Trump becomes more powerful than they can imagine. Musk is correct. Trump will be unstoppable if they try this. Someone insert the meme where there's a picture of Trump and the caption is "they're not really coming after me, they're coming after you and I'm the one standing in the way. "
March 18, 2023, 11:59 AM
Balzé Halzé
They won't be able to help themselves. I expect they'll go through with it and arrest him. And damn them to hell if they do.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago was bad enough, but this--arresting a former President and current Presidential candidate--is on another level. Trump has truly broken something in these people's minds.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
March 18, 2023, 12:03 PM
doublesharp
________________________ God spelled backwards is dog
March 18, 2023, 12:12 PM
ensigmatic
quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé: Trump has truly broken something in these people's minds.
Seems to me likely they were already broken. Trump merely forced them to expose themselves.
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March 18, 2023, 12:13 PM
doublesharp
Let's Roll
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March 18, 2023, 12:33 PM
Pale Horse
quote:
Originally posted by chellim1:
It’s regretful that the primary seems headed toward a negative campaign. More than anything, I wish the two men would not attack each other and would just focus on presenting their own best cases to the voters.
Are the two attacking each other though? All of the attacks seem to come from Trump.
Asking for DeSantis to be removed as Governor is a real dick move on Trumps part.
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March 18, 2023, 12:35 PM
Ripley
Trump's legal tormenters are going to have a tough time selling this to the country, even with their complicit old media bastards. To one extent they'll get away with it but I can't imagine their rabid howling will serve them well. A true watershed moment seems to be upon us, buckle up.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
March 18, 2023, 12:52 PM
doublesharp
Left is looking for violence to implement martial law but I think a massive Go Galt Strike is best response. MAGA supporters must come down with a massive case of Red Flu and we can shut it all down.
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All this arrest stuff is nothing but BS. It’s a NY state misdemeanor charge that has already run past the statute of limitations..if for some reason or way the DA gets it upped to felony charges it’s still past the SOL.
And because it’s a state charge all President Trump needs to do is not go to NY. No way is RDS gonna issue a Governors warrant for extradition of Trump. It would be the end of his political aspirations.
Unless Trump goes and turns himself in on it. Then Trump will be a martyr. And he will win bigly, bigger then they can cheat.
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein
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“A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker
March 18, 2023, 01:27 PM
6guns
quote:
Originally posted by Pale Horse:
quote:
Originally posted by chellim1:
It’s regretful that the primary seems headed toward a negative campaign. More than anything, I wish the two men would not attack each other and would just focus on presenting their own best cases to the voters.
Are the two attacking each other though? All of the attacks seem to come from Trump.
Asking for DeSantis to be removed as Governor is a real dick move on Trumps part.
I said it in the Trump/DeSantis thread, and I'll say it again here. If they both swallowed their pride, especially President Trump and they teamed up to battle the dems, they could not be beat. Given the state of the country, I hope they see what's needed.
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March 18, 2023, 01:41 PM
Balzé Halzé
quote:
Originally posted by 6guns: Given the state of the country, I hope they see what's needed.
They won't.
This is Presidential politics. You better believe it's going to be as nasty as you fear it could be. And then maybe even a little worse than that. This Primary will be a blood bath.
~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country
Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
March 18, 2023, 01:49 PM
chellim1
President Trump Says He Expects to be Arrested Next Tuesday
In a Truth Social post earlier today [LINK HERE], President Donald Trump announced a leak from the Manhattan district attorney’s office indicates he will be arrested next Tuesday.
While there has been some attention to the “protest, take our nation back” element to the statement, in totality that reference point appears to be misinterpreted. President Trump is not calling for a protest in response to his arrest per se’; to me he appears to be calling upon “protest” in relation to the totality of the corrupt and manipulative state of our nation as a result of the radical leftists tearing our nation apart.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
March 18, 2023, 04:40 PM
smschulz
The enemy will make any protest part of their corrupt agenda.
March 18, 2023, 06:06 PM
oddball
quote:
Originally posted by MikeinNC: No way is RDS gonna issue a Governors warrant for extradition of Trump. It would be the end of his political aspirations.
Many forget that DeSantis owes his win in 2018 for the governorship to Donald Trump. In the state primaries, he was trailing Adam Putnam badly, and was being out spent by Putnam as well. In fact, it was Pence who tried to discourage Trump from getting in between DeSantis and Putnam, but Trump endorsed DeSantis anyways. After that endorsement, DeSantis turned his campaign around and months later defeated Putnam. In fact, DeSantis used Trump's endorsement as a key focus of his campaign.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
"They're making stuff up that they've never used against anybody because they hate Trump. That's what this is. They're brewing a legal cocktail, to try to come up with some bizarre theory," Graham said. "The law never used by anybody in New York, just because they hate Trump. You know why they're doing this? Because they're afraid of Trump. That's why they're doing it."
Pure desperation. Donald Trump may be indicted (I doubt it), and if so, he'll beat this, but he will not be arrested.
