Trump says he will be arrested Tuesday and calls on supporters to protest

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Trump says he will be arrested Tuesday and calls on supporters to protest

Michelle L Price and Jill Colvin

March 18, 2023

Former President Trump said in a social media post that he expects to be arrested Tuesday as a New York prosecutor is eyeing an indictment in a case investigating hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president.

Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network early Saturday that illegal leaks from the Manhattan district attorney’s office indicate that THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL BE ARRESTED.

Messages left at the prosecutor’s office on Saturday were not immediately returned. Trump representatives did not immediately respond to calls for comment.

Trump gave no known details on social media about how he felt about the anticipated arrest. In his posts, he repeated his lies that the 2020 presidential election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden was stolen and urged his followers to PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK! That language evoked the then-president’s message that preceded the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.

Law enforcement in New York has made security preparations for the possibility that Trump could be indicted.

There has been no public announcement of any time frame for the grand jury’s secret work on the case, including any vote on whether or not to indict the ex-president.

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Trump’s message mirrors one from last summer when he broke the news on Truth Social that the FBI was searching his home as part of an investigation into possible mishandling of classified documents.

The Manhattan grand jury has heard witnesses, including former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who says he orchestrated payments to two women in 2016 to silence them about sexual encounters they said they had with Trump a decade earlier .

Trump denies the meetings took place, says he did nothing wrong and has portrayed the investigation as a witch hunt by a Democratic prosecutor bent on sabotaging the Republicans’ 2024 presidential campaign.

The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg apparently investigated whether any state laws were broken in connection with the payments or the way Trump’s company compensated Cohen for his work in keeping the women’s allegations quiet.

Daniels and at least two former Trump aides, former political adviser Kellyanne Conway and former spokesman Hope Hicks are among the witnesses who have met with prosecutors in recent weeks.

Cohen has said he arranged payments totaling $280,000 to porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal at Trump’s direction. According to Cohen, the payouts were intended to buy their silence about Trump, who was then in the middle of his first presidential campaign.

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