Trump Predicts 'Death And Destruction' If He's Indicted

Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on prosecutors, warning in an early-morning Truth Social post on Friday of the threat of "death and destruction" if he is indicted. That "warning" was about what his supporters might be capable of if the former president is put in handcuffs for the world to see. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Early Friday morning, Donald Trump sent out what could be construed as a call to violence from his base if he gets indicted. Here is what Donald Trump posted on truth social warning about so-called death and destruction if he ends up being prosecuted. Here it is. What kind of person can charge another person? In this case, a former president of the United States who got more votes than any sitting president in history and leading candidate by far for the Republican nomination with a crime. When it is known by all that no crime has been committed and also known that potential death and destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our country. Why? And who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath? What that truly hates the usa.

Okay, let's dissect that statement, right? The potential death and destruction that our country would experience should, should such a prosecution take place. This, in my opinion, is a call to violence. This is Donald Trump, not just dog whistling, but bull horning to his crowd. This is what you have to do. If I get indicted, if they put handcuffs on me, it's death and destruction all around the country. That is essentially what this man is saying right there on truth, social. And of course, he continues his dehumanizing attacks on Alvin Bragg. You know, on uh uh, uh, Thursday he called him an animal working for lunatics. Now he calls him a degenerate psychopath who hates the usa. And of course, by adding that little caveat there, he hates the usa. Then his supporters, Trump supporters get to go out there and be like, well, this guy hates America. He's destroying the country. So I'm justified, justified in the death and destruction that I caused because I am the good guy saving America from, as Trump puts it, this degenerate psychopath.

Alvin Bragg had the opportunity a little over a year ago to go ahead and charge Donald Trump to indict him for bank fraud, tax fraud, and all of the other frauds that his businesses were hit with. We know that because Mark Pomerance, the prosecutor who resigned shortly after Brag, took office, admitted that he and c Vance the then Manhattan DA, had already drafted the indictments like they were written and ready to be filed, but Bragg didn't want to do it. And now I bet Bragg's, looking back on that thinking, you know what? Probably should have gone ahead and done that. If this is how this a-hole is going to behave, I should have hit him with everything that I have.

And by the way, brag, you can still do that. I'm sure if you reached out to Mark Pomerance, you could probably either get him back or he could recommend somebody to come and basically take back over the investigation he was running. And I think you need to do that at this point because the charges for the Stormy Daniel thing, you're basically talking about two minor crimes, ensure you can raise it to the level of felony, but you're not gonna put this man behind bars like you would if you were able to prove the bank fraud and the tax fraud in court. You need to hit him with everything that he has got because he is threatening to tear down this entire country. And he needs to be behind bars. He needs to be where he cannot access truth social, where he cannot rile up his base. He needs to be locked away because this man, Donald Trump is the degenerate psychopath who clearly hates the U S A.