New York barricades in anticipation of looming Trump indictment
Ryan King
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New York officials are battening down the hatches and have begun erecting barricades as former President Donald Trump‘s potential arrest looms.
Hundreds of riot police officers have been mobilized in anticipation of civil unrest as the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office mulls whether it will bring forth charges against Trump. Images showed the barricades being placed near a courthouse in lower Manhattan.
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Angst over a possible indictment reached a fever pitch following reports last week that New York law enforcement has been gearing up in anticipation of Trump getting charged from an investigation revolving around an alleged hush-money payment that was sent to porn star Stormy Daniels, whose birth name is Stephanie Clifford.
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Trump fed the frenzy over the weekend when he suggested that he may get arrested Tuesday and issued a battle cry to his supporters to take to the streets in protest.
“Illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly political Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which has allowed new records to be set in violent crime and whose leader is funded by George Soros, indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven, and based on an old and fully debunked (by numerous other prosecutors!) fairytale, the far and away leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States of America, will be arrested on Tuesday of next week,” Trump said. “Protest, take our nation back.”
Top of mind for many is the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in which thousands of Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol in 2021 amid a quest to decertify the 2020 election.
“We do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York,” Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg wrote to staff following Trump’s remarks, per the Associated Press.
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It is not clear why Trump postulated he would be arrested Tuesday. A grand jury assigned to the case is reportedly receiving testimony from a lawyer named Robert Costello on Monday, whom Trump’s allies have requested to deliver testimony. He is believed to have testimony that could counter star witness and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s account.
At issue is an alleged $130,000 payment to Daniels during the 2016 election cycle in exchange for her staying quiet about an alleged affair with Trump nearly a decade earlier. Prosecutors are reportedly zeroing in on whether that amounted to a campaign finance violation and whether the Trump Organization falsified records of the incident.