Former US President Donald Trump speaks on education at a campaign rally with his supporters March 13, 2023 in Davenport, Iowa, USA.
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Donald Trump said in a social media post Tuesday that New York prosecutors are considering indictment in a case investigating hush money paid to a woman who claimed to have had sexual contact with the former president. He said he would be arrested.
In a post on his Truth Social network early Saturday, Trump said the “illegal leak” from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was “a far-flung major Republican candidate and former president of the United States of America. It shows that he will be arrested on Tuesday,” he said. “
Trump urged his supporters to protest.
Law enforcement officials in New York are preparing security for possible prosecution of Trump.
There was no official word on the timeframe for a grand jury’s covert work in the case, including a potential vote on whether to indict the former president.