Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said there was “no reason to protest” after former President Donald Trump claimed he was likely to be arrested this week for alleged hush money payments, prompting similar comment by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, not to protest, seemed to repeat.
Warren came to ABC’s This Week on Sunday and told host Jonathan Karl that she’s always worried about violence stemming from protests, but said there was no reason for Trump supporters to protest his possible arrest this week , which emerges from years of investigations into Trump’s alleged confidentiality. Cash payments with porn star Stormy Daniels.
“Violence is never the right answer, and I always worry about it. But this is another case of Donald Trump just trying to advance Donald Trump’s interests, not the rest of the nation,” she said.
“There is no reason to protest against it. This is the law working as it should, with no fear or favor for anyone,” she added.
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Trump went to Truth Social on Saturday and said leaks from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office indicate he will be arrested on Tuesday.
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Then-Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a town hall meeting at Grinnell College November 4, 2019 in Grinnell, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
“NOW, ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY OFFICE, WHICH HAS PERMITTED TO SET NEW RECORDS IN VIOLENT CRIME AND Whose LEADER IS FINANCED BY GEORGE SOROS, SHOW THAT NO CRIME CAN BE PROVED AND IS BASED ON AN OLD ( BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAR AND FAR THE LEADING REPUBLIC CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL BE ARRESTED TUESDAY NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE BACK OUR NATION!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Towards the end of Trump’s successful 2016 presidential bid, his former attorney, Michael Cohen, sent Daniels $130,000 to prevent her from disclosing her 2006 affair with Trump. Trump then compensated Cohen.
Former President Donald Trump told Columbia Journalism Review he had to battle “incredibly fake stories” during his presidency. (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik / File)
Prosecutors could file charges against Trump in connection with misrepresenting the reimbursements in his company’s internal records as “legal expenses.”
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Trump spokesman Steven Cheung called the possible charges a “witch hunt” in a comment to Fox News Digital this week.
“President Donald J. Trump is completely innocent, he has done nothing wrong, and even the biggest, most radical left-wing Democrats make that clear,” Cheung wrote in a statement.
Taylor Greene made a remark similar to Warren’s about not protesting the matter, urging Trump supporters not to take to the streets, arguing that “these idiots are sealing their own fate” in 2024 over the possible arrest .
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“We don’t need to protest the Communist Democrats’ plans to arrest Pres Trump and our government’s political arming and election interference.” Taylor Greene tweeted on Saturday.
“These idiots are sealing their own fate in 2024 because the silent majority has two feelings about the current regime right now. fear and anger. That’s the strongest combination when election time comes. And the Democrats are fueling that force with their own corrupt actions.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren and former President Donald Trump (Getty Images / File)
Warren said Sunday that Trump is not “above the law” and that the legal system is working as intended.
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“No one is above the law, not even the former President of the United States. If there has been an investigation, and that investigation should be allowed to proceed appropriately. When it’s time to press charges, they will press charges. That’s how our legal system works.”
Fox News Digital’s Aaron Kliegman contributed to this report.
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