Former President Donald Trump, who is targeting the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, will be in Texas next weekend for his first major rally.
The major Republican rally, announced Friday, will be held March 25 in Waco, Texas, the part of McLennan County that Trump won by more than 23 points in 2020.
Trump has visited the state numerous times in recent years. Waco was the site of a deadly massacre in 1993, when federal agents seized the grounds of the religious cult Branch He Davidian.
The Trump rally’s plans came amid reports that the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office may be preparing indictments for alleged hush-money payments Trump made as a presidential candidate in 2016.
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Former President Donald Trump travels to Waco, Texas on March 25 for the first rally of the 2024 election season. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
But the potential indictment and Trump’s claim that he could be arrested on Tuesday hasn’t stopped the former president’s team from making sure the rally continues.
“Notice that the radical left Democratic prosecutors in Manhattan funded by George Soros have decided to go on a witch hunt is nothing more than an illegal leak from the Department of Justice and the Attorney’s Office to NBC and other fake news carriers. It was next level,” a Trump spokesperson said Saturday. “President Trump duly underlines his innocence and the weaponization of our corrupt system. He will be in Texas next weekend for a huge rally. Make America Great Again!”
A court source told Fox News Digital: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office He said he met with law enforcement and said, “We’re going to talk about logistics for some time next week, which means they’re looking forward to prosecution next week.”
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg during a press conference in New York on Thursday, September 8, 2022. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Possible indictment stems from years of investigation into Trump hush money scandal allegedly involving porn stars Stormy DanielsTowards the end of the 2016 presidential election, Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen sent Daniels $130,000 to prevent him from disclosing his relationship with Trump in 2006. Paid back to Cohen in installments.
playing cards criticized the media On Saturday morning, he hinted that he would be arrested next week via the Truth Social app, telling his supporters to “protest and take back our country.”
“Now, an illegal leak from the corrupt and highly politicized Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has set a new record in violent crime, whose leader was funded by George Soros, and who can prove the crime.” Couldn’t and shows it’s based on an old and completely debunked (by many other prosecutors!) fairy tale, a distant Republican frontrunner and former President of the United States who will be elected next week. Arrested on Tuesday. Protest and take back our country!” Trump wrote.
Trump supporters await President Trump’s arrival at the Ohio Republican Party rally at Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, November 7, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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In a lengthy statement to Fox News Digital, Trump spokesperson Stephen Chang denounced the investigation as a “witch hunt” and accused Bragg of pocketing. President Biden and “Radical Democrats.”
“President Donald J. Trump is completely innocent, he has done nothing wrong and even the biggest and most radical Left Democrats have made it clear,” Chan said. rice field.
Fox News’ Chris Pandolfo, Marta Dhanis, Adam Sabes, Brandon Gillespie, and Associated Press contributed to this report.
