It’s dangerous, and if he keeps it up he’s going to get someone killed.” Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader in the House of Representatives, said: “The twice-impeached former president’s rhetoric is reckless, reprehensible and irresponsible. Trump even shared an image of himself holding a baseball bat next to a picture of Bragg. He also used increasingly racist rhetoric as he launched ever more personal attacks against Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, raising fears that supporters could try to lash out on his behalf. On his Truth Social platform he warned of “potential death & destruction” if he is eventually charged.
Trump falsely predicted his own arrest on Tuesday last week and called for protests without adding that they should be peaceful.
A grand jury in New York investigating a hush money payment to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, who alleged a sexual encounter with Trump, a claim he denies. It came with Trump facing the prospect of becoming the first president in US history to be indicted. The choice of location for the rally was also striking: Waco, a city in Texas, exactly 30 years after a 51-day standoff and deadly siege between law enforcement and the Branch Davidians that resulted in the deaths of more than 80 members of the religious cult and four federal agents. Donald Trump called the prosecutors investigating him ‘absolute human scum’.
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