Senior Republicans echoed Donald Trump’s claim that a looming indictment in a hush-money case would amount to political “persecution,” while Democrats warned his call for protests could trigger a repeat of chaos his supporters unleashed at the US Capitol.
“I’m taken aback at the idea of indicting a former president of the United States at a time when there’s a crime wave in New York City,” Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Trump has denied any untoward involvement with Daniels. But law enforcement agencies are preparing for a possible indictment, with chaotic scenes outside the Manhattan Criminal Court a near-certainty if it does happen.The stunning possibility of a former president being arrested — a historic first — has fanned passions and injected considerable uncertainty into the 2024 campaign.
“It does drastically change the paradigm, as we go into the ’24 election,” he said, adding of a possible indictment: “It’s going to be a circus.” But Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, told CNN that “trying to encourage protests in the shadow of January 6th is reckless.”Nancy Pelosi, the former House of Representatives speaker, on Saturday called Trump’s announcement “reckless,” saying he was trying to “foment unrest among his supporters.”
Short suggested Trump might be drawing attention to the Manhattan case to plant the notion that other state and federal inquiries into his past actions, seen as legally more serious, are “all politically based.”
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