NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump on Monday trashed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as a “racist” and denounced his indictment in the Stormy Daniels hush money investigation as “election interference.”
Whipping off a string of posts as he jetted into New York from Florida ahead of Tuesday’s planned arraignment, Trump accused the prosecutor of railroading him and accused federal law enforcement of working to derail his 2024 campaign against President Joe Biden.
“Biden and his people knew all about (Bragg) going after Trump,” he wrote in one post on his social media site. “They pushed the Racist D.A ... to push this Witch Hunt forward.”
Trump also posted several videos of handfuls of supporters gathered along the road near his Mar-a-Lago resort home as a small motorcade took him to the airport in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump has relentlessly attacked Bragg for being “corrupt” and even slammed Judge Juan Merchan for supposed bias against him.
“The Corrupt D.A. has no case. What he does have is a venue where it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get a Fair Trial (it must be changed!)” he wrote late Sunday. “And a Trump Hating Judge, hand selected by the Soros backed D.A. (he must be changed!)”
Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina has said he has no beef with Merchan despite Trump’s attack.
Some legal experts believe the former president may be ordered by the judge to avoid such outbursts once he is formally charged or be placed under a gag order.
After landing at LaGuardia Airport, Trump rode by motorcade to midtown Manhattan where he planned to spend the night at his Trump Tower apartment. He will appear in court Tuesday morning to face criminal charges for the first time in his life.
Trump also blasted prosecutors for what he claims is a double standard in the federal investigations into classified documents by himself and Biden.
“When will they be looking at the Biden Documents,” he asked. “What about the Classified Docs laying on the floor of his unsecured garage (with the Corvette!).”
Biden is being probed by special counsel Robert Hur after several classified documents were found at an office he once used before becoming president and in the garage of his home in Delaware.
Biden, who says he did not know the documents were in his possession, has cooperated with the probe and invited the feds to do more extensive searches.
Trump, on the other hand, took hundreds of classified government documents when he left the White House and insists they belong to him.
He defied a subpoena for the return of all the documents and is suspected of obstructing the investigation, now run by special counsel Jack Smith, by moving some of the remaining documents and even rummaging through them.
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