This image, contained in the indictment against Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Worth a follow: Our ace reporter Alex Isenstadt, who will be flying with the former president to these events. Will he simply urge Republicans to keep filling his campaign coffers? Or will things take a darker turn? We’ll be watching closely how he calls upon his supporters to react to his growing legal peril. Later today, Trump will make his first live remarks since the indictment at Republican state conventions in Georgia and North Carolina. “SOMEDAY SOON, HOWEVER, IT WILL BE ABLE TO WIPE AWAY THOSE TEARS AND SMILE, BIGGER THAN EVER BEFORE.” “AMERICA WENT TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT WITH TEARS IN ITS EYES,” he wrote this morning. In the past 24 hours alone, Trump has sent more than 80 messages on Truth Social, including attacks on Smith as “a Coward and a Thug,” renewals of his false stolen-election claims and, early this morning, a parody video of himself driving a golf ball and knocking Biden down. The Messenger’s Khaya Himmelman and Benjamin Powers reported yesterday on how officials are already ramping up security for Tuesday.īut three days is a lot of time for Trump and his allies to continue raising the temperature. And you can be certain federal authorities will be taking every precaution to prevent a riot, or anything close to it. To be sure: Trump warned of “potential death & destruction” ahead of his April hush-money indictment in New York, and while some supporters (and counter-protesters) rallied outside the Manhattan courthouse, there was no significant violence. “This is a congressman calling for the real thing.”
This isn’t slow civil war,” said author and radicalization expert JEFF SHARLET. That is all.”įor those of you who don’t speak conspiracy theory, those are apparent references to the “real president of the United States,” military-scale maps and guerilla warfare tactics. CLAY HIGGINS (R-La.) appeared to fan the flames in a Thursday night tweet: “This is a perimeter probe from the oppressors. The backdrop is an unmistakable rhetorical escalation from Trump’s supporters - and even some of his rivals inside the GOP - some of whom have not only attacked the Justice Department and special counsel JACK SMITH but have cast Trump’s indictment as a politically apocalyptic moment.Ĭonsider how Rep. “Specific plans for that day are still being developed, according to a Trump campaign aide,” WaPo’s Isaac Arnsdorf and Hannah Knowles report this morning. “Be there, will be wild!” he wrote on Twitter - setting the stage for the Capitol riot weeks later.Īlready there are materials circulating online calling for a gathering outside the federal courthouse in downtown Miami where Trump will be arraigned Tuesday, though those plans do not have Trump’s imprimatur. 6, 2021, and Trump himself implored his backers to come out. You’ll remember that, as Congress prepared to certify JOE BIDEN’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s allies organized a rally on the National Mall for Jan. It’s a message that portends some volatile days ahead for American democracy. “SEE YOU IN MIAMI ON TUESDAY!!!” former President DONALD TRUMP told his followers last night in a Truth Social post, amid a stream of political attacks, conspiracy theories and typical Trumpian bombast.
| Carmen Mandato/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY Donald Trump is stoking his supporters to show up outside his arraignment in Florida on Tuesday.
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