Alex Woodward reports on the former president’s predictions of a looming civil war should he be indicted or lose another election.

A grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s alleged role in a scheme to pay hush money to a porn star won’t consider the case until at least next week – further postponing a decision on his possible arrest.

Alastair Jamieson writes:

Across far-right social media accounts and message boards reviewed by The Independent, the former president’s prediction of his own arrest was the evidence they needed to support long-running conspiracy theories that Democratic officials and President Joe Biden’s administration have weaponised the federal government against him.

But unlike the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, which was organised openly across social media platforms, discussion of protesting Mr Trump’s potential arrest has largely revolved around denouncing the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation and echoing the former president’s incendiary and dramatic rhetoric about the state of the US.

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Former attorney Michael Cohen was once Donald Trump’s top operative: a “fixer” who handled matters both legal and otherwise for the celebrity businessman-turned-political candidate.

In the autumn of 2016, Cohen was still serving as an attorney and longtime colleague of the presidential hopeful he would later go on to call a racist, a con man and a fraud in sworn testimony to Congress. As part of that job, he connected with a woman named Stephanie Clifford — aka porn star Stormy Daniels — and started making a deal.

Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran has arrived in court for his grand jury testimony.

The editorial board of The Houston Chronicle has accused former president Donald Trump of “stoking the fires of Waco” ahead of his planned rally in the Texas city this Saturday.

The former president arrives in Waco during the 30th anniversary of the disastrous Branch Davidian debacle, a two-month-long siege by the ATF, the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies culminating in a fire storm that killed 74 people, including 21 children. What happened at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco on April 19, 1993, was the deadliest day in FBI history. (Additionally, four ATF agents and six Branch Davidians lost their lives on the first day of the 51-day siege.)

The GOP-friendly city of Waco — Trump won McLennan County by more than 20 percentage points in 2020 – has every right, of course, to host a former president, the leading contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, but “Waco” the symbol ... means something else entirely. “Waco” has become an Alamo of sorts, a shrine for the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, the Oath Keepers and other anti-government extremists and conspiracists.

The editorial continues:

Militia members and conspiracists know exactly what Trump’s Waco visit symbolizes. They have heard him castigate the FBI and the “deep state,” particularly after agents searched for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. How they’ll respond to his remarks, particularly if he shows up as the first former president in American history to face criminal charges, has law enforcement in Waco and beyond taking every precaution. What he says will likely set the tone for the presidential campaign to come. Every American should be concerned.

After offering alternative positive reasons to visit the Texas city, the op-ed concludes by saying:

Don’t bother with a bombastic, bullying candidate inclined to incitement and bent on “retribution.” His appearance is ample reason to stay home.

Former Trump administration staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin, now a cohost of The View, has little time for the latest dark, apocalyptic rant from the former president, imploring the Republican Party to move on from him.

“These are the rantings of a person who is clearly unwell,” she tweeted. “How long are we going to pretend, GOP?”

Another day, and more violent rhetoric threatening death, destruction, and catastrophe in the US from the former president and leading contender to be the Republican Party presidential candidate in 2024...

As Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran prepares to testify today in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe, piercing attorney-client privilege, it has emerged that another lawyer for the former president gave previously undisclosed testimony before the grand jury late last year.

ABC News reports that Timothy Parlatore gave testimony on 22 December 2022 regarding efforts by Trump's team to locate any classified documents that remained in the former president’s possession after the FBI's unprecedented August search of his Florida home.

The network cites sources familiar with the matter.

Mr Parlatore’s testimony was ordered after months of wrangling between Mr Trump's attorneys and officials in the Justice Department, who had grown increasingly concerned that the former president still continued to hold onto classified documents after more than 100 were discovered in the 8 August search, the sources said.

Only days before his testimony, Mr Parlatore revealed to the Justice Department and DC district court Judge Beryl Howell that a search of Mar-a-Lago conducted by Mr Trump's legal team on 15-16 December had turned up four additional documents with classification markings.

Mr Parlatore was not subpoenaed for his testimony, and when reached for comment by ABC News, he said: “I voluntarily and happily chose to go into the grand jury so that I could present my client's case to them in the context of our search efforts. During my testimony, it was clear that the government was not acting appropriately and made several improper attempts to pierce privilege and, in my opinion, made several significant misstatements to the jury which I believe constitutes prosecutorial misconduct.”