Donald Trump is in panic mode as he braces for his most legally perilous week since he left the White House, with the Manhattan district attorney likely to bring criminal charges against him over his role in paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
As he huddles to strategize his legal and political responses, the former president continued to air his grievances on his social media site on Sunday, firing off an all-caps rant on Truth Social, blaming “communists, Marxists, Rinos and losers” for his potential arrest and for “destroying the country”.
Trump, who previously called for protests to “protest and take our nation back” wrote:
“REMEMBER, THE SAME ANIMALS AND THUGS THAT WOULD DO THIS TO PERHAPS 200 MILLION PEOPLE, BUT ACTUALLY ALL AMERICANS, ARE THE COMMUNISTS, MARXISTS, RINOS, AND LOSERS THAT ARE PURPOSEFULLY DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY!”
He then accused the Manhattan DA, who he dubbed “racist”, of breaking the law by investigating him.
“IT IS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF MANHATTAN WHO IS BREAKING THE LAW BY USING THE FAKE AND FULLY DISCREDITED TESTIMONY (EVEN BY THE SDNY!) OF A CONVICTED LIAR, FELON AND JAILBIRD, MICHAEL COHEN, TO INCREDIBLY PERSECUTE, PROSECUTE, AND INDICT A FORMER PRESIDENT, AND NOW LEADING (BY FAR!) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, FOR A CRIME THAT DOESN’T EXIST” Trump wrote.
He added: “ALVIN BRAGG SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE CRIME OF “INTERFERENCE IN A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.”
Trump’s panic attack comes after reports that law enforcement authorities in New York have quietly been preparing for the possibility that the former president will stoke civil unrest if he is subject to any form of legal accountability whatsoever.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has not yet indicated that Trump has actually been charged in the case of a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election – or any other.
