Security was being ramped up around Miami’s Wilkie D Ferguson Jr Courthouse, with several protests planned including by a local chapter of the far-right Proud Boys group.
“We hope that tomorrow will be peaceful. We encourage people to be peaceful in demonstrating how they feel,” Miami’s Republican mayor Francis Suarez told reporters on Monday.
Trump is expected to fly to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, afterwards to restate his innocence in a speech before supporters.
The Republican former president’s legal woes are only just beginning, as he faces multiple felony counts in a financial fraud case in New York set to go to trial next March.
Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the documents probe, is also looking into Trump’s involvement in the 2021 US Capitol riot, and state and federal investigators are scrutinising his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
“EYE FOR AN EYE”
Trump’s allies in Congress and rivals for the presidential nomination have largely circled the wagons following his latest indictment, decrying the “weaponisation” of the government against conservatives.
Some Republican lawmakers have been criticised for rhetoric that could inspire violence, including Louisiana’s Clay Higgins, who told supporters to “buckle up” and Arizona’s Andy Biggs, who tweeted: “We have now reached a war phase. An eye for an eye.”
Source: CNA
