Former US President Donald Trump has warned of potential “death and destruction” if he is charged with criminal offenses, hours after New York prosecutors investigating his payment to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels for silence confirmed they would not be intimidated.
Trump’s Friday post on his media website TruthSocial was the latest in a series of verbal attacks on Manhattan prosecutors since Saturday, when Trump wrongly predicted he would be arrested three days later.
Trump claims that his defeat in 2020 is the result of fraud, a claim that inspired his supporters to launch a deadly attack on January 6, 2021 on the US Congressional Building (Capitol) in a failed attempt to prevent Congress from ratifying the election of Democratic President Joe Biden, who exceeded Republican Trump by more than seven million. voice.
Trump, who is seeking to run for the 2024 elections on behalf of the Republican Party, wrote, “Who can accuse another, in this case, a former president of the United States who received more votes than any other president in history, and who is the leading candidate (so far!) to represent the Republican Party, of a crime.” At a time when everyone knows that no crime was committed and it is also known that the potential death and destruction in a false accusation like this could be disastrous for our country.
Stormy Daniels said she was paid to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
Trump denies having any relationship with Daniels, describing the payment as a “simple private transaction,” adding that he did not commit a crime, describing the investigation as politically motivated.
The Manhattan grand jury investigating Trump will not meet again until next week.
In other cases, prosecutors in Georgia are investigating Trump’s attempts to change the outcome of the elections he lost there, and a special federal council is investigating his attempts to change the outcome of the elections, turn the loss into a victory, and remove secret documents from the White House after the end of his presidency.