Donald Trump created a \u201cfalse expectation\u201d of his imminent arrest, the New York prosecutor investigating the ex-president over hush money said on Thursday, as tensions build over a possible indictment.
\nThe comments come amid uncertainty over when a grand jury hearing the case will take a vote on charging Trump, a historic move that would inflame the 2024 election campaign in which the 76-year-old Republican is running to regain office.
\nManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office made the remarks in a letter sent to three Republican lawmakers who had written to Bragg requesting that he testify before Congress about his probe.
\nThe Republicans \u2014 who are all chairmen of House committees \u2014 accused Bragg, a Democrat, of waging a \u201cpolitically motivated prosecution\u201d in their letter dated on Monday.
\nIt was sent after Trump had said on Saturday, without providing any evidence, that he expected to be arrested on Tuesday, and called for supporters to \u201cProtest, take our nation back!\u201d
\n\u201cYour letter\u2026 is an unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution,\u201d Leslie Dubeck, the general counsel for Bragg\u2019s office wrote in Thursday\u2019s response.
\n\u201cThe letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. Neither fact is a legitimate basis for congressional inquiry,\u201d she added.
\nTrump\u2019s post on Truth Social sparked a media frenzy and led to warnings from Democrats that his call for demonstrations could trigger a repeat of the violence his supporters unleashed at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Protests have so far been small and sporadic.
\nNew York police have erected barricades outside Bragg\u2019s office, Trump Tower and the Manhattan Criminal Court, where Trump would eventually appear before a judge if indicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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