(New York Post) Former President Donald Trump has sparked outrage by sharing images showing him holding a baseball bat next to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s head — and calling him “a degenerate psychopath” who “hates the USA!”
Trump, 76, shared the image — featured in a link to an article — on his Truth Social platform Thursday as he devoted his day to attacking the prosecutor for pursuing a case over the “hush money” payout to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“They are HUMAN SCUM!” he wrote in one post asking why Bragg “refuses to do the right thing and ‘call it a day?’”
He kept on raging until the early hours of Friday with continued incendiary name-calling.
“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, 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 known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?” he asked just after 1 a.m.
The former president shared the image, part of a linked article, to his Truth Social on Thursday.
“Why & who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truely [sic] hates the USA!”
He continued posting until 2 a.m. — then started again after 9 a.m., writing: “PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT!”
His latest images — especially the baseball bat image — quickly sparked a Bronx cheer online, with few coming out to bat for him.
Former President Donald Trump accused Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg of being a “degenerate psychopath” who “hates the USA” on Truth Social.
Law professor Jennifer Taub shared a screenshot to Twitter, calling it a “threat” that “is obstruction of justice and is a dangerous call to violence.”
CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen also tweeted that “threatening a prosecutor is a crime in NY. In fact MULTIPLE crimes.”
Others called him “a violent, Pathological criminal” who is “dangerous, unhinged, and running free to incite violence in America.”
Some online consider Trump’s posts about DA Bragg to constitute calls for actual violence against the prosecutor.AP
“Enough really is f–king enough,” one person told their more than 90,000 followers.
Former MSNBC host Keith Olberman tagged the Justice Department as he raged: “ARREST TRUMP NOW.”
He accused Trump of having “issued repeated stochastic terrorist calls for his cult to ‘remove’ the ‘animal’ Alvin Bragg – and use a baseball bat.
“He’s trying to get this man killed. Period. Enough,” he told his 1 million followers, comparing Trump’s bat image to “a movie murder scene” and part of a plot “as disgusting as Charles Manson.”
URGENT: Overnight Trump made ADDITIONAL terrorist threats against Alvin Bragg. The latest vows “death and destruction.”
Trump must be arrested and as a lethal danger to Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, Fani Willis detained WITHOUT BAIL.
FRI. COUNTDOWN: https://t.co/mpAX1CFGOp pic.twitter.com/UH4SI5sRMy
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) March 24, 2023
