The Georgia prosecutor probing possible 2020 election interference by former President Trump asked the FBI on Sunday for security assistance after Trump called for mass protests in some cities where his conduct is under investigation.
asked the FBI on Sunday for security assistance after Trump called for mass protests in some cities where his conduct is under investigation.
In a Jan. 30 letter to the special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta field office, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis noted that her office is"conducting a criminal investigation of former President Donald J.
"We must work together to keep the public safe and ensure that we do not have a tragedy in Atlanta similar to what happened at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," she wrote."My staff and | will not be influenced or intimidated by anyone as this investigation moves forward."Saturday in Conroe, Texas, where he repeatedly attacked the prosecutors who've been investigating him as"racist.
"If these radical, vicious, racist prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal, I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta and elsewhere, because our country and our elections are corrupt," Trump said at the rally, before segueing into the"unfair" treatment of those who've been charged with storming the Capitol in his name on Jan. 6.
"If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly, and if it requires pardons we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly," Trump said.
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