The New York Times reports that the weekend Trump posted on his social media platform that his arrest was imminent, meetings took place among senior officials from the district attorney’s office and the the courts regarding the preliminary plan for an indictment. A similar meeting occurred between the NYPD and court officers.
Senior Police Department officials and two of the mayor’s top public safety aides also held a virtual meeting to discuss matters of staffing and security, as well as contingency plans if a protest did occur. Cops have been ordered to patrol the courthouse where it would happen, and barriers have been erected nearby.
More recently, word has come out that local law enforcement aren’t the only ones ready for anything following a potential Trump indictment; so is the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) said on Sunday that in a brief he got from the FBI, they said they are “fully prepared” for any violence that may grip the city in the aftermath.
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” he stated that the FBI has not witnessed any “specific strains” of violence, but that “the level of rhetoric on some of these right-wing sites has increased.”
He added that any violence would be “ one further stain on [Trump’s] already checkered reputation.”
Trump called for protests on Truth Social when he originally posted that he may be indicted. But his calls for something at least related to the scene on January 6th appear–thankfully–not to be heeded as faithfully.
In his Waco, Texas rally, Trump claimed without any evidence that Bragg “dropped the case” against him.
