All hands are on deck for the New York Police Department and Metro Police Department as all officers are expected to appear in uniform Tuesday and are ready for anything following a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Officials in New York City and Washington, DC are bracing for riots and demonstrations after the former president told his supporters to oppose any upcoming action by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in his case involving Trump hush money payments made went, “protest, protest, protest”. to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump, 76, said last week he expects to be arrested on Tuesday, but a law enforcement official told an indictment is not expected until Wednesday at the earliest.
An internal NYPD memo obtained by CNN shows that all officers are to be in uniform and prepared for Tuesday’s deployment.
Meanwhile, Daniels is also stepping up her security after her attorney said she has received worrying news, including some that threatens her life.
According to an internal memo from CNN, all NYPD officers were notified Tuesday to be in uniform and ready for action in the event of any unrest related to a possible indictment of Trump. Pictured: New York officials await instructions outside the courthouse on Tuesday, March 21, amid the expected indictment of Trump
Donald Trump posted a video on Truth Social Monday night condemning the “witch hunt” against him. He said over the weekend he expects to be arrested on Tuesday, but a law enforcement source told they don’t expect charges until Wednesday at the earliest
Police officials tell CNN there are currently no credible threats in New York, despite Tuesday being a “high alert day.”
Washington Metro Police are also preparing for protests, but U.S. Capitol Police “are not currently pursuing direct or credible threats to the U.S. Capitol,” notes a department intelligence assessment obtained by CNN.
NYPD is the nation’s largest police agency with approximately 36,000 current officers and 19,000 civilian employees. This week’s memo suggests all 36,000 officers are expected to be in uniform and on standby for Tuesday’s deployment.
Many lawmakers and politicians on both sides of the aisle have said nobody wants a repeat of January 6 – with Republicans claiming they don’t expect the demonstrations to turn violent but warning of a “political circus” over a possible indictment become.
On Monday afternoon, the NYPD met with US Secret Service and the Chief of Public Safety for state court officials.
Their session ended late Monday afternoon at NYPD headquarters with a decision to increase security around the courthouse beginning Tuesday morning, a law enforcement official told .
However, the source said the charges themselves are not expected until Wednesday at the earliest and Trump is unlikely to arrive in New York until early next week.
“They had their meeting and discussed a whole bunch of things about how they’re going to put extra lighting out there, how they’re going to put more barriers out there and send their special operations teams inside,” the official said.
“The NYPD will do what they do when the United Nations comes to town with increased security,” they added. “But they don’t even think it’s going to happen this week.”
“The impeachment can happen, but they don’t think Trump is coming this week. I’m told there is an additional witness who will testify on Wednesday, so if there is an indictment, it won’t happen until Wednesday or Thursday, so they think he’ll probably come next week.”
Trump has said he was the victim of a racketeering scheme by “Stormy “Horse Face” Daniels” and said he is being targeted in a series of “terrible Radical Left Democrats” investigations.
Daniels is feeling the effects of Trump’s potential arrest amid his attacks on her.
Her attorney, Clark Brewster, told TMZ that Daniels had received “bad news” on social media and was taking extra safety precautions – although he didn’t share details for fear of tipping off anyone who might want to harm her.
Some public comments online include those calling the pornstar a “worthless lunatic” and a “degenerate prostitute” who they claim “should be in jail” for “extortion.”
The NYPD is preparing for a possible arrest of Donald Trump by erecting barricades near the courthouse on Monday
Press and security guards are posting outside the Manhattan courts and district attorney’s office this week
Trump’s attorney said the former president continues to deny the substance of allegations of a sexual relationship with Stormy Daniels, calling the $130,000 hush money a “harassment payment” that wealthy or famous people sometimes use to make a distracting situation disappear
Trump supporters are pictured outside Trump Tower Monday after the ex-president urged his base to “protest, protest, protest” against his imminent arrest and indictment.
The former president – who believes he may face his arrest this week – told his supporters he would protect them during an angry post on Truth Social.
He warned: “They’re not after me – they’re after you. I just stand in their way. And I will always stand in their way.”
Trump is expected to be arrested in Manhattan this week while a grand jury investigating hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels concludes its deliberations.
Meanwhile, police forces across the US were preparing for possible unrest if the former president was arrested.
Trump’s arrest is believed to be imminent because this week he was offered an opportunity to speak before the grand jury about the $130,000 payments made just before the election but refused to testify .
Trump’s attorneys have hired Robert Costello, who previously advised Trump’s “fixer” Michael Cohen, to testify against Cohen and try to damage Cohen’s version of events.
Cohen made the payment to Daniels and was jailed for campaign finance violations. Now he has turned against Trump.
Trump confirmed that Costello had testified.
“It is said that disfellowshipped attorney Michael Cohen was drained today after his highly respected former attorney and legal adviser Robert Costello made a huge impression not only on the prosecutor’s office but on the grand jury itself,” Trump wrote .
“He is known as a great lawyer and a most honorable man. He told the media that he could no longer listen to the lies Cohen was spreading. He told the TRUTH, with papers, documents and support. He left ZERO doubts.
“THE DA WILL DO THE RIGHT THING!”
A Trump supporter is arrested Monday outside the West Palm Beach library: protesters need a permit to be on the county’s property
A Trump supporter is seen outside his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida on Monday
Trump supporters can be seen in Mar-a-Lago on Monday
Donald Trump attends The Palm Event on Sunday, March 19 at his home and residence in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida
Trump on Monday night listed what he saw as unfair investigations into himself and his administration and vowed to fight back.
He said: “These four horrific investigations by the Radical Left Democrats into your favorite President of all time – me – are just a continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in our country’s history.
“It goes on forever with Russia, Russia, Russia and Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine and the Mueller hoax. It’s an absolute disgrace what’s going on. They even spied on my campaign.
“And remember, for all the work they’ve done on Mueller – no collusion. That was the answer. It was everything, no collusion.’
Trump told his supporters he was being attacked by “sick” prosecutors determined to bring him down and insisted he was seen as a threat to Democrat power and must be stopped.
The former president added: “Whether it’s the Mar-a-Lago raid, or the unselected committee hoax, the perfect phone call in Georgia – it was absolutely perfect – or Stormy ‘Horse Face’ Daniels’ blackmail scheme, they’re all there sick.
“And it’s fake news. Our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know we’re the only ones who can stop them.
‘And they know it very well. And they look at the polls, where not I, but we are so far ahead. You can’t even believe it.”
exclusively reported that the ex-president’s hush money payments to Stormy Daniels were intended to prevent the news from reaching his wife and former first lady Melania Trump.
“Trump was thrilled that Melania would find out the details of his indiscretion — an indiscretion involving a porn star, no less,” said a source close to the former president. “He knew what the consequences could be and he would do anything to keep it under control.”
Furious Melania, now 52, spent several nights in a posh DC hotel to stay away from the White House when it was revealed in January 2018 that the then-President had paid the pornstar to keep quiet about her one-night stand , sources tell DailyMail .com.
She then left Washington for West Palm Beach, Florida, when her husband was holding court at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2018, an event the First Lady was originally scheduled to attend.
It was exactly what Trump feared when he agreed 15 months ago to pay Daniels, 44, the $130,000 hush money.
Still, the former first lady, now 52, decided to take time off from her husband when The Wall Street Journal reported Daniels’ payout in January 2018.
After the Wall Street Journal article appeared just a year after Trump’s presidency, a celebrity magazine published a chilling interview with Daniels in 2011, in which she recounted the 2006 sexual encounter with the future president in a hotel room at a Lake casino Tahoe spoke , Nevada after a celebrity charity golf tournament.
The magazine had kept the interview for seven years before publishing it.
“It was annoying and humiliating; Her relationship with President Trump has become strained,” a source told after news of the payment broke.
Trump, who announced in November that he would seek re-election in 2024, told his supporters Monday night they needed to bring him back to the White House.
Trump’s plane is at Palm Beach Airport on Monday
Robert Fix shows his support for former President Donald Trump near his home in Mar-a-Lago on Monday
Flags fly outside Mar-a-Lago on Monday and an arrest is believed to be imminent
He rightly noted that he is ahead of everyone else in the polls, beating both likely Republican challenger Ron DeSantis and comfortably beating Joe Biden should he run again.
“We won twice and now we have to win a third time,” Trump said. They know we can defeat them. They know we will defeat them. But they’re not after me – they’re after you.
“I’m just getting in their way. And I will always stand in their way. Thanks very much.’
Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington told Chris Cuomo Monday night on NewsNation that it was “a get Trump operation.”
“It doesn’t make logical sense, it doesn’t make rational sense and it certainly doesn’t make legal sense,” she said.
“It’s a completely lawless operation.”
Harrington said taxpayer money was being used to “harass a political campaign” and insisted he was innocent.
“What they are doing here is twisting the law to try to take out a political opponent. And in the United States of America, we don’t raid the homes of our presidents and arrest our key opponents.’
She said the US would become a third world country by investigating Trump.
Speaking to Chris Cuomo on NewsNation Monday night, Donald Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington said the investigation into Trump was “lawless.”
Trump himself also called a YouTube show hosted by Pastors For Trump and told them the country’s future was at stake.
He asked her to pray for the country and help him return to the White House and “restore order.”
He said the country was in a dangerous state and accused Biden of being weak.
“We have no leadership,” he said.
“We are like a giant ship without a rudder, but the giant ship will head for the bottom of the sea if we don’t do anything. But we will do it through prayer.’
Trump said the Biden administration has paralyzed the United States and is putting it in grave danger – and warned the country is at one of history’s most precarious moments.
“We have to pray and we have to do all the things that we do — we just have to make it work,” he told the show.
“We have to make sure our country stays strong: it’s not strong at the moment – we’ve never been in a position where few people have seen it. I think it’s the most dangerous we’ve ever had.
“We’ve never been in a position like this, with a leader who doesn’t know what he’s doing, a leader who really doesn’t have a clue.
“And other leaders who are at the absolute top of their game when you look at China and Russia and Iran and all these pretty hostile places.”
Trump said the country is now ruled by “a leader who is grossly incompetent and surrounded by vicious people.”
He said Biden’s team “doesn’t believe in our nation.”
He added: “I think they must hate our nation with open borders and all that other stuff – they don’t want voter ID cards, they want high taxes, they want high interest rates. They want everything they shouldn’t want.’
Trump said he presided over an era of energy independence, low taxation, military renewal and deregulation.
When asked by Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer how he would like the assembled supporters to pray for him, Trump said they should pray for the country.
“I think the biggest thing I can ask is a prayer for our country, for our safety,” he said. This was a terrible time for the United States of America.
“Leadership has taken us in many, many bad directions and we are a failing nation – right now we are a failing nation. I believe the most important thing right now is to pray for the safety, security and future prosperity of our country – I would like to ask you to pray for that.’
Trump spoke as police forces debated how best to deal with riots if Trump is arrested.
Activists calling for Trump’s arrest are seen outside the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on Monday
Protesters hold signs outside Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office in New York on Monday
Workers prepare barricades around the Manhattan Attorney’s office on Monday