- US Donald Trump says he will be arrested on Tuesday and encourages his supporters "to protest"
The White House said Sunday that it monitors the emergence of possible protests in case Donald Trump is arrested on Tuesday, as the former Republican president (2017-2021) said on Saturday.
"We always control the situation as best we can. And obviously we don't want there to be violence, certainly not to the extent of what we saw on January 6," 2021, one of the spokesmen for the US presidency, John Kirby, said on the Fox network.
Trump is investigated by the New York Prosecutor's Office for the payment of $ 130,000 to porn movie star Stormy Daniels to allegedly silence a sexual relationship and said Saturday that he will be arrested on Tuesday in the framework of those investigations.
His message urged protest and used rhetoric reminiscent of the one he used in the days before the storming of the Capitol, when he had also called on his supporters to demonstrate against the results of the election in which he was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden.
"We are monitoring this and of course we will monitor it closely," Kirby said of those eventual protests, stressing that they work "hand in hand" with local and state authorities across the country.
Trump based his information on "illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly politicized Manhattan district attorney's office that has allowed new records to be set in violent crime and whose leader is funded by (billionaire) George Soros."
The investigation, which has lasted almost 5 years, covers the payment to Daniels in exchange for her silence during Trump's 2016 election campaign and appears to be focused on the falsification of Trump Organization business records for how reimbursement was included to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who said he advanced that money to the woman.
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