Donald Trump's incendiary rhetoric over his planned indictment in New York could kill the Democratic leader in the US House, he warned.
It is dangerous and if he keeps it up, he's going to get killed. Trump faces indictment in a Manhattan investigation of a hush money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels claims to have an affair, which Trump denies.
Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, served jail time after admitting to making the payment and being reimbursed by Trump. Cohen is now a key witness in the case of Manhattan.
Trump says that the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, is politically and racially motivated. Bragg, a Democrat and the first black man to fill the prestigious post, is believed to be considering charges including falsification of business records, campaign finance violations and tax fraud.
Trump has falsely predicted his own arrest, mused on wanting to be seen handcuffed and called for supporters to protest. Security preparations have been made around the courthouse in Lower Manhattan, but no serious protest has emerged.
Trump used his Truth Social platform to post a composite picture of himself sporting a baseball bat next to Bragg, and Trump upped the ante on Thursday.
Norm Eisen, a former White House ethics tsar, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, responded: Threatening a prosecutor is a crime in New York. MULTIPLE crimes are in fact: Harassment in the first degree menacing in the second degree stalking in the fourth or third degree and that is just for starters. Trump kept going. He said on Friday that Bragg was a degenerate psychopath that truly hates the USA and has already seen the consequences of incitement from the former president. He is responsible for inciting the violent insurrection that happened on January 6. He has not learned his lesson. On 6 January 2021, Trump told supporters to fight like hell to overturn Joe Biden's defeat, based on his lie about electoral fraud.
A mob tried to stop the certification of election results. Some rioters tried to capture lawmakers. Some chanted Hang Mike Pence as makeshift gallows went up outside Trump's vice-president.
There were nine deaths linked to the riot, including a Trump supporter shot by police, an officer who collapsed the next day, and officer suicide in the following months.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested and hundreds of others have been convicted. There are more charges to come from the Department of Justice.
When enough Republican senators stayed loyal, Trump was impeached but acquitted. He is the clear frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 despite wide-ranging legal jeopardy.
The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has rallied to his defense over the New York case, including Trump's chief rival for the nomination.
Most of the people accused Bragg of political bias and linked him to the progressive philanthropist George Soros, an attack with established antisemitic overtones. On Thursday, Bragg told Republicans to back off.
Use Trump's campaign slogan, which stands for Make America Great Again, Jeffries said it is very unfortunate that the extreme Maga Republicans in the House of Representatives continue to back President Trump and his reckless, and his hateful and disgusting rhetoric.