{"id":1902717,"date":"2023-03-22T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T13:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-graham-says-trump-arrest-would-blow-up-our-country\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T09:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T13:51:58","slug":"sen-graham-says-trump-arrest-would-blow-up-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-graham-says-trump-arrest-would-blow-up-our-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Graham Says Trump Arrest Would \u2018Blow up Our Country\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-graham-says-trump-arrest-would-blow-up-our-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1902717&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Former president Donald Trump&#8217;s possible indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg could &#8220;blow up our country,&#8221; warns Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). During his interview on \u201cFox &#038; Friends\u201d on March 21, Graham criticizes Bragg\u2019s probe into Trump\u2019s 2016 payment to an adult entertainment performer, Stormy Daniels, and denounces the DA\u2019s forthcoming indictment of Trump as the first-ever\u00a0of a former U.S. president.<\/p>\n<p>Graham also calls out Bragg for what he considers his inability to handle political pressure. Bragg&#8217;s campaign for Manhattan DA in 2021 received funding from a political donor who had publicly criticized the former DA&#8217;s decision not to prosecute Trump. Bragg is a &#8220;George Soros-backed prosecutor,&#8221; said Graham, and &#8220;can&#8217;t take the heat.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Trump said on his social media site that he anticipates being arrested soon over the $130,000 payment from his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to Daniels. No charges have been formally lodged against the ex-president, and Trump&#8217;s lawyer believes the Truth Social post is based on media&#8217;s speculation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5132826\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in New York City on Jan. 13, 2023. (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Focus on the Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>The investigation focuses on Trump&#8217;s business company regarding the $130,000 that Cohen returned to Trump. He allegedly spent the money on a hush-money payment to Daniels. The affair between the two is broadly denied. Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges related to the payment, including campaign finance violations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump has denied Cohen\u2019s testimony and has referred to him as a &#8220;damaged&#8221; witness. Cohen communicated with prosecutors investigating the Manhattan DA case and testified to the grand jury in March, who is considered a significant witness in Trump&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p>While the investigation is still ongoing, high-profile GOP lawmakers and supporters of Trump have criticized it, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). He accused Bragg of misusing his office and of having different regulations when it comes to prosecuting political opponents.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> &#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> &#8216;Continue Reading More From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/sen-graham-says-trump-arrest-would-blow-up-our-country_5141111.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">&#8220;Sen. Graham Says Trump Arrest Would \u2018Blow up Our Country\u2019&#8221;<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has warned that an indictment of\u00a0former\u00a0President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg would \u201cblow up our country.\u201d Graham made the comments in an interview with \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d on March 21 in which he also condemned Bragg\u2019s probe into\u00a0Trump\u2019s 2016 payment to adult entertainment actress Stormy Daniels. Trump announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1902718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[5175,4160,6412,3803,7025,3634],"class_list":["post-1902717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-arrest","tag-blow","tag-country","tag-graham","tag-sen","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1902718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}