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Lawmakers implore Merrick Garland to protect 'the safety of the American people' if Trump is indicted
March 21, 2023
It remains to be seen whether or not former President Donald Trump will face some type of criminal indictment in 2023 — and if he does, which investigation that indictment will come from. But it is safe to say that no president or ex-president in U.S. history — not even Richard Nixon — has been in the position that Trump now finds himself in. Trump is seeking the GOP presidential nomination at a time when he is facing simultaneous investigations from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis.
Trump has predicted that he will be arrested on Tuesday, March 21 in connection with the Manhattan DA Office's probe of alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. And he is urging his supporters to protest if that happens.
Some Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios reporter Andrew Solender, fear that U.S. will suffer more January 6, 2021-type violence if any of the current investigations lead to Trump facing some type of indictment.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Solender reports in a March 21 article, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California) encouraged the federal officials to "take all necessary steps to (ensure) the safety of the American people."
Garcia told Axios, "We're the first, kind of, post-January 6 class. Many of us ran in large part because of what happened.... A lot of us are feeling, obviously, concerned."
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan) is worried as well. The Democratic congresswoman told Axios, "We saw what happened on January 6. I think we all need to be alert.... I don't know what's going to happen; I've got no inside track, but I'm concerned people are being stirred up."
Trump has never been shy about resorting to inflammatory rhetoric. Political comedian and "Real Time" host Bill Maher, who fears that the United States is in danger of suffering the type of political violence that rocked Northern Ireland during The Troubles, believes that Trump is sounding like an "end-times religious nut."
Speaking at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the former president told attendees, "I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution."
That is the type of heated rhetoric that has Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-New York) concerned. On March 18, Torres told MSNBC, "He's using the same rhetoric that he did in the lead-up to January 6, and Donald Trump has an ugly history of inciting political violence for his own political self-preservation."
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Startling intel bulletins reveal uptick in violent threats over Trump indictment: report
March 21, 2023
Law enforcement agencies nationwide are readying for the possibility of civil unrest should Donald Trump be indicted, according to new reporting from Rolling Stone, which obtained government intelligence bulletins documenting the threats.
A surge in online threats followed the former president’s Saturday social media post announcing that he expected to be arrested Tuesday in connection with a Manhattan investigation into alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
The Manhattan case is among four criminal investigations the former president is under. 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.
The all-caps post on Trump’s Truth Social website included a call to protest that in the view of many echoed his calls to march on the Capitol in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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The D.C. Fusion Center, an intelligence-sharing network that’s part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Capitol Police on Sunday shared assessments of the threats with law enforcement agencies nationwide, the report said.
The bulletins include calls for a response to a potential Trump arrest more lethal than the Jan. 6 attacks. Several threats were made by those indicating a willingness to die for the cause.
“The DC Fusion Center assesses that potential criminal justice actions taken toward a former US president — or actions perceived to be taken toward the former president — remain a ‘line in the sand’ for [Domestic Violent Extremist] communities and thus have the potential to manifest in violence toward government targets or political officials,” the report said.
The report said Trump’s social media post on Saturday “was met with an immediate increase in violent online rhetoric and expressed threats toward government and law enforcement targets perceived as participating in a political persecution of the former president, as well as calls for ‘Civil War’ more generally.”
Of particular concern to law enforcement are posts from those who view violence as the only possible reaction to the former president’s potential arrest.
According to the DC Fusion Center report: “In one observed post, an anonymous user indicated that the arrest would result in ‘Jan 6*10 + Guns,’ while another observed post stated, ‘It’s now or never. We need to see the true version of January 6.’”
The Federal Highway Administration on Monday also issued a warning of threats to disrupt the national highway system.
According to the security bulletin, “Tactics mentioned included using dump trucks to drop ‘a few tons of gravel on six bridges’ in hopes of making them unusable thereby causing a ‘serious hit to food and economic deliveries’ in and out of New York.”
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Before any potential indictment against former President Donald Trump could even be released by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Republicans in the House went on the offensive, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blasting the investigation as "political," and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and others demanding Bragg testify in their committees without even knowing what his charges are or the evidence behind them. The move has led Democrats and legal experts to accuse the GOP of intimidation tactics against prosecutors.
But if that is their intent, they are unlikely to succeed, said former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Tuesday.
"Joyce, you probably know this better than any one of us, if you take Kevin McCarthy's statement, if you look at Rand Paul saying the D.A. should be in jail, if you take a look at some of the other comments, the former president's own comments to protesters, would that reach the threshold of intimidation?" asked anchor Ayman Mohyeldin. "How do you think Alvin Bragg has been handling this? It would seem to me, as an outsider, that this does feel like they are trying to intimidate him."
"Well, they're trying, but I doubt that Alvin Bragg, who has a lot of prosecutorial experience under his belt, feels particularly intimidated," said Vance. "And the reality is that if Jim Jordan or Kevin McCarthy or Rand Paul want to set prosecutorial priorities for the Manhattan's D.A.'s office, they should move to Manhattan and run for office, and when they're the district attorney, they can decide what cases get indicted."
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Unless that ever happens, Vance continued, "it's up for voters in Manhattan to decide whether they think Bragg is doing a good job," and not Republican members of Congress.
"Congress has no business and ... this violates federalism principles," said Vance. "Congress has no reason to try to engage in oversight of the duly elected district attorney in a state. They have no authority. Bragg knows that, and I suspect that he will, you know, just let this one roll off his back and watch them make constitutional fools of themselves."
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