Donald Trump is scheduled to hold his first major campaign rally Saturday, his first since he announced his 2024 presidential run in November and two days after he warned of potential “death and destruction” if a New York grand jury charges him with a crime. Trump could’ve held this rally anywhere and at any time. But he chose Waco, Texas. And he chose a date that coincides with the 30th anniversary of the federal government’s siege of a compound controlled by the Branch Davidian cult. Anti-government extremists have long cited the government’s raid of the compound as an example of what they consider government tyranny.
Experts have appropriately sounded the alarm that by staging a rally in Waco, Trump is courting anti-government extremists.
Experts have appropriately sounded the alarm that by staging a rally in Waco, Trump is courting anti-government extremists. Their concerns are especially valid given that Trump announced his rally on March 17 as media reports were swirling that a grand jury convened by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could soon vote to indict him on charges related to hush money he paid adult film star Stormy Daniels.
On his social media platform Thursday night, Trump posted, “What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?” Only a “degenerate psychopath” would do such a thing, he wrote.
On Friday, law enforcement sources told NBC News that the FBI and NYPD were investigating a letter including a death threat and white powder that was sent to Bragg’s office.
On Feb. 28, 1993, officers what was then known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms attempted to enter the…
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