(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump warned of “potential death & destruction” if Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stumbles forward with his reported plan to indict him over a hush-money payment.
Bragg is reportedly planning to file federal charges against Trump for paying porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence after they had an affair. Bragg claims the payment was a campaign finance violation.
Trump has blasted the alleged charges as political persecution, and urged his supporters to protest if Bragg moves forward with the case.
“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?” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.
“Why & who would do such a thing?” he continued. “Only a degenerate psychopath that hates the USA!”
Bragg’s case took several major hits this week, the latest came when a letter reportedly signed by Daniels resurfaced.
“Over the past few weeks I have been asked countless times to comment on reports of an alleged sexual relationship I had with Donald Trump many, many, many years ago,” Daniels reportedly wrote in the Jan. 30, 2018 letter.
“The fact of the matter is that each party to this alleged affair denied its existence in 2006,20011, 2016, 2017 and now again in 2018. I am not denying this affair because I was paid “hush money”as has been reported in overseas owned tabloids. I am denying this affair because it never happened.”
First we heard from Michael Cohen through his attorney. He paid with his own money. Now there’s this from Stormy Daniels herself #TrumpIndictment pic.twitter.com/MDXEYK2qnE
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) March 23, 2023
Though Trump has blasted Bragg repeatedly, he has also privately told his allies that he thinks an indictment and arrest would be the best thing for his 2024 presidential campaign.
According to a report, Trump rejected a proposal by the Secret Service to voluntarily turn himself in to prosecutors in a discreet location to avoid media attention. He said he didn’t care if the arrest was public, or even if someone tried to shoot him during it, because then he would become “a martyr” and easily win the election.
Trump also reportedly told advisers that he wants to be handcuffed if he has to make an in-person court appearance, saying that if he is going to be fingerprinted and taken in for a mug shot, he might as well use the event to benefit his campaign.
