Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg arrives on the District Attorney’s office as his office investigates $130,000 paid in the ultimate weeks of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who said she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 when he was married to his current wife Melania, in Recent York City, U.S., March 24, 2023.Â
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was threatened with assassination in a letter containing powder, hours after former President Donald Trump warned Friday of “potential death & destruction” if he’s indicted by a grand jury in a criminal case led by Bragg.
“ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!”” said the typewritten note in a letter contained in an envelope addressed to Bragg, WNBC reported, citing law enforcement sources.
The letter, containing an Orlando, Florida, postmark from Tuesday, was present in the DA’s mail room in a lower Manhattan constructing after being received at 11:40 a.m. ET on Friday. The white powder within the envelope was found to be non-hazardous, the Recent York Police Department told CNBC.
A DA spokeswoman said, “The D.A. has informed the office that it was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance.”
NYPD investigators and the FBI, which has an office close by, were on the scene investigating the letter.
The threat to Bragg is one in all several a whole lot which have are available recent weeks because the DA’s office nears the top of its investigation of Trump, a senior Recent York law enforcement official told WNBC. A few dozen were considered to significantly threaten direct harm to Bragg, though their credibility varies, based on the official.
Security officials are closely watching the threats and investigating, the law enforcement official added.
Bragg is investigating a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels by Trump’s then-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen shortly before the 2016 presidential election.
A grand jury has been hearing testimony in that probe but had the break day Friday.
Trump predicted last weekend that he can be arrested Tuesday in Bragg’s investigation, but that didn’t occur.
On Thursday, Trump lashed out in a social media post about Bragg, calling him a George “Soros-backed animal.”
On Friday morning, after 1 a.m., Trump suggested Bragg was “a degenerate psychopath that actually hates the USA” as he condemned the investigation and warned of the potential of violence if he’s charged.
“What form of person can charge one other person, on this case a former President of the US, 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 understood by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could possibly be catastrophic for our Country?” Trump wrote.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she’s going to dance within the streets if Trump is charged within the case.
She accepted the $130,000 hush money payment from Cohen to maintain her quiet about an alleged one-time sexual tryst with Trump. He denies having sex with the pornographic film actor.
