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Doyle McManus: The law is on Trump's tail, and he sounds pretty worried

Donald Trump is beginning to sound panicky. "WHY WON'T BRAGG DROP THIS CASE?" he wrote on his Truth Social account last week of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is investigating Trump's alleged payment of hush money to a porn star. "... THIS IS NO LEGAL SYSTEM, THIS IS THE GESTAPO, THIS IS RUSSIA AND CHINA, BUT WORSE." In a string of social media posts, the former president called ...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump greets the crowd as he arrives to speak at a 2024 election campaign rally in Waco, Texas, Saturday, March 25, 2023.

Donald Trump is beginning to sound panicky.

"WHY WON'T BRAGG DROP THIS CASE?" he wrote on his Truth Social account last week of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is investigating Trump's alleged payment of hush money to a porn star. "... THIS IS NO LEGAL SYSTEM, THIS IS THE GESTAPO, THIS IS RUSSIA AND CHINA, BUT WORSE."

In a string of social media posts, the former president called Bragg, who is Black, "a degenerate psychopath" and an "animal."

Trump urged his supporters to " and warned that indicting

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