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      ​Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg attends an event in Harlem on December 10, 2002.

      Manhattan DA: Trump's Intimidation Efforts Won't Be Tolerated

      Alvin Bragg's comments came after Trump urged his supporters to "protest" and "take our nation back" ahead of his expected indictment.

      Kenny Stancil
      Mar 19, 2023

      Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Saturday that former President Donald Trump's efforts to undermine his prosecutorial authority won't be tolerated.

      In a memo to colleagues, Bragg wrote that "we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York."

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      Former President Donald Trump boards his private jet on March 13, 2023 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

      'Threat to the Nation': Trump Calls for Protests to Stop Potential Arrest in Echo of Jan. 6

      Trump has recently "excused or dismissed the violence of January 6," one journalist warned. "He is an authoritarian willing to (again) use violence for his own ends."

      Kenny Stancil
      Mar 18, 2023

      Former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Saturday on his social media platform that he "will be arrested" on Tuesday and implored his supporters to "protest" and "take our nation back," sparking fears of additional right-wing violence.

      Trump's call to action was reminiscent of how, six weeks after losing the 2020 presidential election, he took to Twitter to urge his supporters to join a "big protest" in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. "Be there, will be wild!" he wrote. Hundreds of far-right insurrectionists showed up and, after Trump told them to march from a rally near the White House to the Capitol, stormed the halls of Congress in a bid to prevent lawmakers from certifying President Joe Biden's win. Multiple people died as a result of the failed coup, which was fueled by Trump and his Republican allies' incessant lies about voter fraud.

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      Reps. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) watch floor

      Insurrection 2.0: The GOP Is Now a Party Focused on Sabotage and Destruction

      What we saw this week is a preview of much worse to come, with or without McCarthy as figurehead speaker.

      Pierre Tristam
      Jan 08, 2023

      I’d wondered how Republicans would mark the anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Then untarnishable Florida Man Matt Gaetz and his freedom contras reenacted it by other means this week. This insurrection is from within. It’s just starting.

      Kevin McCarthy, the wobbliest amoeba to be elected Speaker and stand third in line for the presidency, got his prize by sacrificing it. There is no Speakership anymore except in name.

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