PALM BEACH.- Supporters of former President Donald Trump approached the area around Mar-a-Lago, his main residence on the island of Palm Beach in South Florida, on Tuesday to express their support for the ongoing investigation. follows him in the case of alleged secret payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
With banners and flags, they displayed themselves at the edge of the street leading to their residence. Telemundo 51 spoke to some of the protesters.
Derek Arnold said he was there to support his “commander in chief”. “I’m here to support all nations and all their generations, it’s as simple as that,” he said.
“In my opinion, he is our commander-in-chief because I know what is going on behind the scenes in this administration,” he added.
This show of support for former President Trump comes after the former president himself posted on his social media that he was going to be arrested this week and asked his supporters to come out and protest.
Trump on Tuesday asked his ’74 million constituents’ to sign a letter against the ‘threats of possible arrest’ which he says hangs over him and shows he is ‘united in peaceful defense’ of the movement which led him to the White House in 2017.
In a series of messages sent to his followers, Trump, who last weekend warned that he would be arrested on Tuesday for the investigation into payments allegedly made in 2016 to the 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 Stormy Daniels to allegedly buy his silence on a sexual relationship that kept .
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 on Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago, his residence in Palm Beach, where some of his supporters also demonstrated peacefully on Monday, says he is the victim of a “witch hunt”.
“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.
No timeline for the secret grand jury’s work on the case, including any potential vote on whether or not to indict the former president, has been publicly announced.