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Former President Donald Trump on Friday warned that charging him with crimes could lead to "death and destruction."
In a post on his Truth Social network, the former president once again attacked Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for potentially charging him with crimes due to his hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
While much of Trump's complaint about Bragg was a rehash of past complaints, he added the prospect of violence at the end of his post in an apparent effort to dissuade the Manhattan DA from filing charges.
"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. "Why and who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truely (sic) hates the USA!"
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This rhetoric marks an escalation from Thursday, when Trump complained about people telling his supporters to be peaceful when they protest against him potentially being arrested.
Trump has a long history of inspiring supporters to commit acts of violence, starting in 2016 when he would tell rally goers to "knock the crap" out of protesters.
Most famously, Trump incited hundreds of his supporters to launch a violent attack on the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021.
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Mary Trump believes her uncle is up to no good, and she has a plan to stop him.
The former president’s niece is especially concerned about a MAGA rally scheduled for Saturday in Waco, Texas, where 30 years ago a federal raid of the Branch Davidian compound killed dozens.
The Trump campaign’s first rally in the 2024 presidential races comes at a time when the former president is facing four criminal investigations.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is expected to decide within days whether to indict Trump over the alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.
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A Fulton County, Georgia grand jury is investigating Trump for election interference, and the Department of Justice is conducting separate probes over the handling of classified documents and Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“Donald has a rally in Waco this Saturday,” Mary Trump tweeted Thursday.
“It's a ploy to remind his cult of the infamous Waco siege of 1993, where an anti-government cult battled the FBI. Scores of people died. He wants the same violent chaos to rescue him from justice.”
She’s urging her followers to reserve free tickets for the event online.
“If we book the 50,000+ venue, we can make sure most of the seats are empty when the traitor takes the stage,” she said.
“We can no longer fail to hold powerful men accountable for their crimes against our country.
“Let's fill this venue with empty seats.”
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told The Houston Chronicle the Waco venue was selected because the city is centrally located and not for symbolic value.
"This is the ideal location to have as many supporters from across the state and in neighboring states attend this historic rally," Cheung told the outlet.
"It also happens to be the home to the Baylor Bears, one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in America."
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Former Vice President Mike Pence, who has long resisted any effort to give information to investigators about what happened on and during the leadup to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, appears ready to acknowledge he has no choice but to speak to special counsel Jack Smith.
Speaking to MSNBC's Alex Wagner on Thursday, former Georgia-based U.S. Attorney Michael Moore outlined what that could look like — and what sorts of questions Smith might want answered by the former vice president.
"Michael, is there a world in which there's a narrowly subscribe set of conversations that Pence had in the context of him being a President of the Senate that are off limits, but everything else, including conversations that happened in the Oval Office, that have nothing to do with his ministerial role, those aren't off limits?" asked Wagner.
"In other words, is there some version of this resolution where he gets the have his cake on the Speech and Debate Clause, and that's a narrow set of conversations, but the important conversations, the most relevant conversations are very much on the table, as far as testimony with the grand jury?"
"There might be a way to split the baby in the circumstance," said Moore. "You might find that there's some conversations that are protected and off limits from public questioning. I'm not going to say they necessarily follow under the Constitution. But the judge may say, look, I'm not gonna make you go into this, mister prosecutor, but I am gonna let you talk about that."
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"Tell me about what happened, tell me about what you saw, tell me about what you observed, tell me about what was said to you," said Moore, as examples of what Smith could ask Pence. "Tell me about those types of things at the time that are more, I guess, contemporary a type of observation, as opposed to something that maybe he talked about with a colleague that was in the Senate at the time that he may have been standing in the chamber or something. So there may be a way to do that, and I could see how that could happen. But again, the special counsel's looking for this information about what did Trump know? What were you told to do? What did you see at the time? Did you get a note, did somebody send you something? So this will really get at the heart of what was going on down at the other end of Washington, away from the Capitol."
Watch the segment below or at this link.
Georgia prosecutor explains what Jack Smith could ask Mike Pence www.youtube.com
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