NEW YORK — Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked his “74 million constituents” to sign a letter against the “threats of possible arrest” he says are hanging over him and show he is “united in peaceful defense” of the movement that brought him to the White House in 2017.
In a series of messages sent to his supporters, Trump, who warned last weekend that he would be arrested on Tuesday for the investigation into alleged payments made in 2016 to a porn actress in exchange for her silence and called on his supporters to protest, stressed that “the left and the deep state” “hate” him.
“With the very fate of our Republic at stake, there has never been a more important time to show these dark forces that Trump’s 74 million voters are united in peaceful defense of our movement,” reads the statement. the message announcing the signature collection campaign.
Trump, who is campaigning as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, faces several legal issues, including the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into alleged payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels for allegedly , buy his silence on a sexual relationship they had.
A grand jury must decide whether or not to prosecute the former president, while according to various media reports, the security forces are attentive to possible demonstrations by Trump supporters, such as those which occurred on January 6, 2021 in the assault on the Capitol in the lead.
The former president, who would be this Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago, his residence in Palm Beach (Florida), where some of his supporters demonstrated peacefully on Monday, says he is the victim of a “witch hunt” in the one which implicated the financier George Soros and the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
“If the media leaks are correct, this may be the last time I write to you before a possible impeachment is filed,” Trump said in one of the messages on Tuesday.
The former president thanked the support of the “patriots” who joined his “America First” movement (the United States first) launched eight years ago when “all the media and the ‘establishment’ said that we were doomed.”
“There’s no doubt in my mind that we’re going to win, take back the White House, and make America great again!”
Palm Beach media outlets such as WPTV reported that Trump supporters who demonstrated in the city where he resides on Monday plan to do so on Tuesday as well.