Ahead of Saturday Texas visit, Trump urges his supporters to protest in an effort to build support ahead of a potential prosecution.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.WASHINGTON — Texas Republicans seized on former President Donald Trump's declaration that he will be arrested this week, calling it a major gift to his campaign to retake the White House.
— just days before he is set to hold a rally in Waco this weekend — comes as a New York grand jury investigates hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president.Trump’s lawyer and spokesperson have said there had been no communication from prosecutors. Still, the former president urged his supporters to protest in an effort to build support ahead of a potential prosecution.
"246 years of struggle and progress are about to rocked to their core, because the people who tell you they’re defending democracy would now rather kill it than let Trump seek the White House again," U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, a Houston Republican, tweeted.
U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, an Amarillo Republican who served as Trump's White House doctor, called it a"DISGRACE."This article contains material from the Associated Press.
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