Donald Trump has announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he anticipates being arrested in the upcoming days. The 76-year-old, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, has also called upon his followers to organize large-scale demonstrations.
According to Trump’s statement on Truth Social, the leading Republican candidate and former US President will be taken into custody on Tuesday of next week.
Trump explained that his suspicions were based on “illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly political Manhattan district attorney’s office”.
The outspoken businessman has also called on his supporters to protest.
He wrote: “Protest, take our nation back!”
Trump slammed the current US government, too.
He said: “It’s time!!! We are a nation in steep decline being led into world war III by a crooked politician.”
The legal case involving Trump centres on alleged hush money paid on his behalf to former porn star Stormy Daniels, prior to the 2016 election.
Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen, his lawyer, after Cohen paid Daniels $130,000. The official record for the payment states that it was for “legal fees”.
In 2018, Cohen was jailed for three years after he confessed to making the payment.
Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyer, Susan Necheles, insists that her team hadn’t heard anything official.
She said: “Since this is a political prosecution, the district attorney’s office has engaged in a practice of leaking everything to the press, rather than communicating with President Trump’s attorneys as would be done in a normal case.”
Trump – who served as the US President between 2017 and 2021 – has always denied any wrongdoing.
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