On Saturday, former President Donald Trump claimed on his platform, Truth Media, that… He will be arrested on Tuesdaycalling on his followers to “protest” and “take our home back” in an echo of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
Trump baffled at 7:26 a.m. Saturday some near his campaign trail, According to The New York Times. Although prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office have indicated an indictment is imminent, Trump allies aren’t clear where Tuesday’s deadline came from. But the call to arms comes before a Saturday March 25th rally in Waco, Texas – the first in the Trump 2024 campaign – and contradicts what he has posted on major social media sites such as YouTube and Facebook.
Trump will likely face indictment by a grand jury in Manhattan He allegedly paid hush money in 2016 to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an affair. According to Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, Cohen paid Daniels $130,000, which was later reimbursed by Trump’s company, The Trump Organization. The indictment from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office will focus on attempting to cover up payment by falsifying records.
Trump’s social media presence has been significantly reduced after January 6, 2021 Riots; Trump and the alt-right’s mouthpieces at the time called on the former president’s followers to take action as Congress endorsed President Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. Trump’s social media presence in particular was seen as a catalyst for the violence that day, and Twitter and Facebook YouTube suspended Trump’s account in the following days and weeks.
Twitter boss Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s account shortly after October 27 last year, when he took control From the social media company, though Trump hasn’t posted there yet. YouTube and Meta, Facebook’s parent company, have both reinstated Trump on their sites; On Friday, his team posted a video to YouTube and Facebook — a clip from CNN, early the morning of his 2016 victory — announcing, “I’m back.”
A YouTube account on Twitter explained the company’s rationale for reinstating Trump’s account, Saying that youtube It carefully assessed the ongoing risk of violence in the real world, while balancing voters’ opportunity to hear on an equal footing from major national candidates in the run-up to the election. YouTube terminated Trump’s suspension on the platform on Friday. Meta released a statement on January 25th They said the company would reinstate Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, with improved “firewalls” on Trump’s content, including limiting posts suggesting election denials or QAnon allegations.
Trump and his companies and associates have faced many legal troubles over the years; Cohen went to prison for his role in the financial hush-hush scandal, and The Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, was sentenced to five months in prison for profiting from the Trump Organization’s tax evasion efforts. Other investigationsOngoing, at the federal and state levels.
Prague’s attempt to issue an indictment now, which relies on hidden funds, is somewhat strange, since Vox’s Andrew Prokop explained in January. Bragg took office after Cyrus Vance Jr., who filed charges against Trump based on hush money violating campaign finance law after the Southern District of New York dropped the charges. Bragg was initially skeptical about moving forward with the case when he took office in 2022, leading to the departure of two attorney generals in his office and a wave of criticism about him being too soft on Trump.
The Bragg case has been gaining momentum in the past couple of months, though it’s still not clear how it will be argued or, as Prokop notes, how strong this case actually is:
This seems to pose the possibility that the silent money case is a bit farfetched, as the “zombie” legal theory is being revived now that Bragg seems to realize that he would benefit more politically from being seen as trying to unseat Trump – although we don’t It can be said with certainty without understanding more about its evidence and legal reasoning.
This, of course, hasn’t stopped Trump from using the possibility of an indictment to his advantage. like Vox’s Ian Millheiser It was noted in an article explaining the various legal cases against Trump and related entities, “While the Department of Justice is usually very silent about the ongoing investigation (and responsible state-level prosecutors won’t be particularly close), Trump won’t. And it’s likely.” To tell lies and half-truths to mislead the public and infuriate his supporters.”
On the Truth Social, Trump followed up his complaint about the alleged arrest and asked his followers to protest simple request: “If you’re doing poorly, as many of you do, don’t submit anything. If you’re doing a good job, which has been achieved through the great policies of the Trump administration, submit your contribution to donaldjtrump.com/.”
