Former US President Donald Trumpwarned today of the potential for “death and destruction” if prosecuted, hours after New York City Attorney’s Office, investigating the funding of porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence, signaled they would not be deterred.

Trump’s post on Truth Social is the latest verbal attack he has unleashed on Attorney Alvin Bragg since last Saturday, when the former US president predicted—wrongly, as it turned out—that he would be arrested in three days.

Trump continues to claim that his defeat in the 2020 presidential election was the result of fraud. This assertion prompted his supporters to attack Capitol January 6, 2021 in a failed attempt to prevent Congress from ratifying the victory of Democrat Joe Biden, who received about 7 million more votes.

In a separate event, a judge today ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and other former Trump advisers to testify before a grand jury investigating attempts to influence the election. Trump insisted that his accomplices were subject to “executive privilege” and were not allowed to testify, but the court rejected the demand, ABC reported.

“What kind of person can go after another person, in this case a former US president who has received more votes than any sitting president in history and is the leading candidate (to date!) for the GOP nomination for a crime when everyone knows that there was NOT NO crime has been committed and it is also known that the potential death and destruction of such a false accusation could have catastrophic consequences for our country? Who should do it and why? Just a nasty psychopath who really hates the US,” Trump tweeted about the Stormy Daniels case.

Bragg’s office with his letter to them Republicans congressional committee chairs, he questioned their intention to investigate him, noting that Trump was the one who “created the false impression that he was going to be arrested.”

The letter characterizes the request of three committee chairs requesting information about a pending criminal investigation as “an unlawful interference with the powers of the State of New York.”

Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims she was paid to keep quiet about an affair she had with Trump in 2006. The former president denies having an affair with Daniels and calls it a “simple private deal” of $130,000. He insists he did not commit any crimes and calls the investigation politically motivated.

The grand jury investigating the case will meet again next week.

Source: APE-MPE-Reuters