No ‘specific threats’ of Trump-related violence if he is indicted, White House says
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The White House on Monday said it has seen no specific threats of Donald Trump-related protests after the former president called on his supporters to “take our nation back.”
Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday morning that he could be arrested Tuesday in relation to the Stormy Daniels case and called for protests in the event that that happens. But nothing has emerged yet, per National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.
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“I’m not aware of any specific briefings or specific threats,” Kirby said. “As I said yesterday, we always monitor this, even absent the context of those comments, we’re constantly monitoring this, as you would think we should, particularly in the wake of what happened [on] Jan. 6.”
Kirby said Sunday that there are security measures in place in the event that protests emerge from Trump’s social media statement.
“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 wrote. “Protest, take our nation back.”
Trump has repeatedly condemned the Manhattan district attorney’s office investigation into hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Several reports indicate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is preparing to indict Trump on criminal charges. It would be the first time an indictment is brought against a former U.S. president.
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The former president is also scheduled to be in Waco, Texas, on Saturday for a rally. A reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about security concerns at the event.
“I can’t speak to what the former president is going to do or say,” she said. “I’m not tracking any security concerns, so I don’t have anything more to share beyond that.”
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