Manhattan D.A. receives threatening letter with white powder

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🗓️ 25 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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After Trump warned of “potential death and destruction” if indicted, the Manhattan prosecutor investigating his hush money case was mailed a threatening letter with white powder. It comes as Trump attorney Evan Corcoran testifies before a grand jury and a judge orders the former president’s top aides to testify. Jonathan Allen, Amna Nawaz, Barbara McQuade, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Robert Gibbs, David Jolly and Jon Meacham join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, Donald Trump's escalation of dangerous rhetoric with a potential indictment looming,
0:07.1	predicting death and destruction just hours before the Manhattan D.A.'s office received
0:11.4	a threatening letter.
0:13.3	Then, Marjorie Taylor Greene takes her political theatre to a DC jail to visit January 6
0:19.2	defendants what conditions really like?
0:22.7	And Florida's culture war takes aim at Michelangelo?
0:27.6	How the rallying cry of so-called parents' rights could shape the 2024 election, as
0:32.3	the 11th hour gets underway on this Friday night.
0:40.9	Good evening.
0:41.9	I'm Mehdi Hassan in for Stephanie Rule.
0:45.2	At one o'clock this morning, Donald Trump posted yet another insulting and threatening message
0:50.2	to his social media platform.
0:52.0	He called Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg a quote, degenerate psychopath and warned that potential
0:57.8	death and destruction could follow a charging decision from Bragg's office in the Stormy
1:02.6	Daniels hush money case.
1:05.0	At 11.40 this morning, D.A. Bragg's office received an anonymous threatening letter.
1:10.6	That letter said quote, Alvin, I'm going to kill you for this in all capital letters with
1:15.4	13 exclamation points.
1:18.0	The envelope contained white powder, which thankfully was not dangerous.
1:22.5	A senior New York law enforcement official says there have been several hundred threats
1:26.6	to the D.A.'s office in recent weeks, including a couple of dozen considered directly threatening
1:31.8	serious harm to Bragg.
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