Panicky fingers

Also, Biden has nothing to do with the personnel in the Manhattan DA's office.  That's not a federal office, not even a state office.  It's city.  Nor does the DOJ have an operative there.

“Just reported that the most important witness to go before the New York City grand jury, a highly respected lawyer who once represented convicted felon, jailbird, and serial fake storyteller and liar, Michael Cohen, will be doing so tomorrow afternoon,” Trump wrote in an all-caps Truth Social post Sunday.

“The information he will present will supposedly be conclusive and irrefutable! Witch hunt!!!,” he added.

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Costello reportedly talked to Cohen about representing him in 2018, and then reached out to Trump officials about a pardon on Cohen’s behalf. However, their relationship soured as Cohen became an outspoken Trump critic, and Cohen refused to pay a legal bill from Costello.

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A person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press that Costello had reached out to a Trump lawyer to say that he had information that countered what Cohen had previously stated, and could exonerate Trump.

  The Hill

I wouldn't count on it.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sought to tamp down former President Trump’s call for protests in response to a possible arrest of the president in connection to a Manhattan District Attorney investigation.

“I don’t think people should protest this stuff,” McCarthy said in a press conference at the House GOP issues retreat on Sunday when asked about Trump’s statement.

  The Hill

As if anybody is paying any attention to Kevin McCarthy. He should get Marj to make the statement.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a supporter of both McCarthy and Trump, has also said that “we don’t need to protest” the potential arrest.

Oh, well, there you go. I should have known he wouldn't say anything without Marj's approval.  But surely she didn't mean to disagree with Trump.

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with calling…for protests. Americans have the right to assemble and the right to protest,” Greene told reporters in Orlando on Sunday, adding that Trump “doesn’t have to say peaceful for it to mean peaceful. Of course, he means peaceful.”

Of COURSE he does.

McCarthy has also condemned Bragg’s investigation and called it a political attack, promising investigations into whether any federal funds were used in connection with the probe.

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“Lawyer after lawyer after lawyer will tell you this is the weakest case out there,” McCarthy said.

I don't think that helps, dude.  It just reminds people there are stronger cases to come.

[New York Times journalist Maggie] Haberman said Trump and his political team are “preparing for a huge blitz politically to push back on the Manhattan district attorney,” though she added she doesn’t think Trump’s recent posts on Truth Social calling for his supporters to protest was part of “a grand plan.”

“He did it, and a bunch of his aides were surprised by it,” Haberman said of Trump’s post.

  

Nobody was surprised. Annoyed or disappointed maybe, but nobody was surprised. Nobody.

“But I do think that that is separate from what you’re going to see legally. And while I know that his folks are suggesting this as a weak case, they don’t actually know what the evidence is.”

Nor what the charges are going to be.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

P.S.  I'm waiting for the Trump mug shot showing a police ID number and a big smile and thumbs up.

UPDATE 05:14 pm:  He's so panicked, he's gone from sporadic capitolized words, to the entire thing - in social media parlance, shouting.

UPDATE 03/21/2023:

"Almost" everybody???  Normally he just says everybody.

Behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago, the former president has told friends and associates that he welcomes the idea of being paraded by the authorities before a throng of reporters and news cameras. He has even mused openly about whether he should smile for the assembled media, and he has pondered how the public would react and is said to have described the potential spectacle as a fun experience.

  NYT

Sounds worried to me.

If Mr. Trump is indicted and surrenders voluntarily, arrangements are likely to be made between the Secret Service and law enforcement to avoid a media circus.

Sad!

When Mr. Trump has focused on the case — one of four criminal investigations in Georgia, New York and Washington now facing the front-runner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination — he has concentrated on projecting strength and avoiding any signals of shame over his circumstances, an approach that mirrors his handling of repeated political crises and his flair for creating dramatic, made-for-TV moments.

UPDATE 03/23/2023:  Interesting that everyone who "should be removed immediately" is involved in a case against Trump.

And did he just dis Russia?