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re: TRUMP INDICTED For HUSH Payment & 31 Other Possible Charges
Dramatic Images Of Donald TRUMPs’ Arrest Taking Internet By Storm, But There’s One Problem: They’re Fake
How TRUMP Tried to Spin His Arrest - How TRUMP is Fundraising Over His ‘Arrest’
TRUMP Grand Jury Expected to Report on Thursday
---Manhattan grand jury expected to meet on Wednesday as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump and a possible indictment, is now scheduled to return at noon on Thursday
AP 23 MAR 2023
MAGA vows to make Ron DeSantis pay if Donald Trump is indicted
Adult performer Stormy Daniels (pictured left) and former US President Donald Trump
Former president Donald Trump fuelled a media firestorm with his all-caps prediction of his own arrest, a claim apparently based on reports of a looming indictment from a criminal investigation in New York.
His own team followed up to clarify that he did not receive any indications from prosecutors that he had yet been charged or would be imminently arrested.
But his claim fanned the flames of unrest with incendiary rhetoric and demands that his supporters “protest, protest, protest” a then-unannounced decision, with Mr Trump’s allies rushing to his defence and mounting an offensive on his behalf.
He also has used his announcement and his narrative of political persecution to raise money for his 2024 presidential campaign, relying on similar tactics that his fundraising arms have used after the federal law enforcement search of his Mar-a-Lago property last year and his spurious attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
After his “arrest” and “protest” statements on Truth Social ignited a media frenzy on 18 March, his campaign sent a fundraising email with a headline from a Fox News story about the former president’s prediction. The email tells supporters that “you’re our country’s only hope.”
Donald Trump's prediction that he will be arrested this week has yet to come true - but as the waiting game for criminal charges goes on, the former president is plotting a strategy designed to both keep him out of jail and turbo-boost his historic bid to return to the White House.
It is a daunting task, and hunkered down in his Mar-a-Lago home, Mr Trump seems resigned to becoming the first US president to be indicted for a crime. Yet it's also clear he will not go quietly. His past choices in moments of political crisis are a useful guide to what we might see next.
When cornered by political adversaries, Mr Trump punches back.
Throughout his 2016 presidential campaign, he leaned in to conflict when other politicians might have backed off. Blasted for criticising war hero John McCain? Trump upped his attacks. Accused of sexual harassment before a debate with Hillary Clinton? He held a press conference with Bill Clinton's sexual accusers.
During his presidency, it was the same story through two impeachments, a special counsel investigation of Russia election meddling and countless smaller controversies.
"If Trump is indicted, the playbook remains exactly the same," says Bryan Lanza, a Republican strategist and Trump adviser. "Attack the legal as political."
The best defence, as the American football saying goes, is a good offence.
Mr Trump is already punching back against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, framing him as a liberal prosecutor hell-bent on pursuing political retribution against the former president.
A press release on Monday referred to him as a "progressive activist", a "rogue prosecutor" and a "woke tyrant who has politicised the justice system".
Expect those attacks to continue if an indictment is announced and for Mr Trump to portray himself as a victim of a leftist plot - a common theme of persecution Mr Trump has also regularly relied on in his political career.
"If he's indicted, he becomes bulletproof," Mr Lanza says.
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