‘People Better Be Careful’: Right Slams Trump Indictment, Hints at Potential Violence to Come
NYPD said to be fully mobilizing for possibility of retribution
Those on the political right are losing their minds over Thursday's news that a grand jury in New York has indicted Donald Trump.
Right-wing political and media figures are going all-in for the former president, parroting Trump's antisemitic tropes and hinting darkly at potential violence to come.
Others are taking that possibility for violence seriously, as the full New York Police Department (NYPD) has been mobilized in reaction to the Trump indictment, which remains under seal.
“It’s the stupidest thing I have ever seen,” Fox News personality Jesse Watters said, on-camera, after news broke about the Trump indictment, despite the fact that the specific charges against Trump have not yet been made public. “And I feel bad for the guy. He didn’t even really have to be president. He had a lot of money. He had a great life. And he decided to run. He won, he got in. They took him down, and now they’re trying to nickel-and-dime him for a private agreement he made with a woman, what, eight years ago? It has nothing to do with politics. Wasn’t paid through campaign funds. This is a disgrace.”
Florida Republican Gov Ron DeSantis engaged in those antisemitic tropes, calling out wealthy Jewish banker George Soros in a tweet aimed at thumbing his nose at the rule of law.
“The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head,” tweeted DeSantis, potentially Trump's top rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. It is un-American.
“The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent,” added DeSantis, himself a Harvard-educated lawyer. “Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with this Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda.”
Fox's Watters warned vaguely of violence to come, simply because the legal system is moving ahead as it should.
“[T]here’s gonna be a major rally-around-the-flag feeling,” he said. “I’m starting to feel it right now. I’m angry about it. I don’t like it. The country’s not gonna stand for it. And people better be careful. And that’s all I’ll say about that.”
Watters' hard-right Fox colleague, Tucker Carlson, joined in the ominous warnings, specifically citing the potential for “retaliations from red states.”
“Alert, American politics were thrown into complete chaos when a grand jury in Manhattan a place where 80 percent voted for Joe Biden decided to indict Biden’s political opponent in the upcoming election, the Republican front runner who leads by 30 points in polls, Donald Trump,” said Carlson, a known propagandist. “The jury did this at the urging of a man called Alvin Bragg, the district attorney who have been famous by making the city much more dangerous by refusing to enforce laws against crimes like robbery or rape.
“We don’t know what the indictment says or what the charges are, but previous news reports suggest they’ll imminent from an alleged payment seven years ago, Alvin Bragg apparently believes it is a crime. The net results is Donald Trump is the first former president of the United States ever to be indicted. So, no matter what happens next we can be certain there is no coming back from this moment,” Carlson added. “There could be retaliations from red states. DeSantis issued a statement saying he’ll not participate in any extradition of Donald Trump to New York, that’s apparently scheduled by next week. We are not certain of the full outlines of this story but we know this moment is a historic one.”
With these, and other, potential calls for disturbance and violence, New York is getting ready.
Orders have gone out from the NYPD for every cop in the city “of every rank” to “show up in uniform tomorrow” following the criminal indictment of Trump, John Miller, former deputy commissioner of intelligence & counterterrorism of the NYPD, and today a top analyst for CNN, said Thursday evening.
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