Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, whose office has investigated and seeks to bring charges against former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) in connection with an alleged 2016 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, received what appears to be a threat on Friday. of death in an envelope with white powders.
Bragg’s office told reporters that New York police and authorities determined there was not “a dangerous substance” in the letter, the latest among “several hundred threats” received by the prosecutor and his team in recent weeks. , a law enforcement source told NBC.
The Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into the payment to Daniels has spanned nearly five years and centers on a $130,000 payment to the woman – allegedly in exchange for her silence about a 2006 sexual relationship – during the election campaign that ousted him. leading to the White House in 2017.
The case is now in the hands of a grand jury, which must decide whether or not to prosecute the former president, and if Trump is indicted he will become the first former US president to face a criminal charge.
Trump has not spared in recent days increasingly direct attacks against Bragg, and the latest of them has consisted of publishing a photographic montage where he appears himself with a baseball bat about to hit, and in the left corner and in small Bragg’s head.
Shortly before, he had posted a message on his Truth Social network in which he said that his possible accusation, after which Bragg is, could occur “only to a degenerate psychopath who hates the United States”, and immediately warned that this accusation, if occurs, it will bring “potential death and destruction.”
