Trump says he will be indicted and arrested this week....How will prominent Ohio Republicans like U.S. Senator JD Vance and Governor DeWine respond?.....By Clevelandurbannews.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader gove

 
Former president Donald Trump (right) and U.S. Sen J.D. Vance in Ohio following the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine on Feb 22, 2023


By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

NEW YORK, New York-Following a Feb 22 visit by former president Donald Trump  to the East Palestine, Ohio town where on Feb 3 a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed causing a massive explosion and generating international news, the country now braces for a possible indictment and arrest this week of the controversial public figure and declared candidate for the 2024 presidential election.  

The former president announced last week that he faces a possible York York grand jury indictment and arrest regarding what prosecutors say was criminal impropriety regarding hush money in 2016 to American pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, whom the former president is accused of carrying on an illicit affair, an alleged affair that he denies. 

And in announcing the potential indictment and arrest Trump also called for protests on his behalf, a call for action that has largely fallen on death ears and has raised questions as to whether he still has the power to mobilize far-right supporters the way he did more than two years ago before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection That insurrection by thousands at the U.S. Capitol in response to Trump having rallied his supporters in response to losing the 2020 election left several people dead and wounded, including a Capital police officer who lost his life.

The Capital riot and and convictions and long prison sentences that some of the protesters received may have made Trump supporters cautious about rallying behind his potential indictment and arrest this week, say sources, though he remains a front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in 2024 with Democratic President Joe Biden, who ousted him from  the White House in 2020, currently his strongest opponents, if the president seeks reelection next year as many expect he will. His supporters say the possible indictment and other criminal charges that loom in various legal arenas are politically motivated his critics say on the other hand that is illegal dealing have finally caught up with him. Time will tell.  

Trump's visit earlier this month to Palestine at the site of the trail derailment, one of two derailment's by Norfolk Southern in Ohio in the last two months, was in some aspects political as he was joined by  East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway,  J.D. Vance, who is a U.S. senator from Ohio who won a hard fought campaign for his seat last November with the former president's support, Ohio state Sen. Michael Rulli and state Rep. Monica Robb Blasdel.  But whether or not prominent Republicans in Ohio like Gov. Mike DeWine, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state attorney general Dave Yost will endorse Trump's presidency for 2024 remains to be seen, particularly if he is indicted as promised. 

Ohio was once a pivotal state for presidential elections that Barack Obama won in 2008 and again in 2012 for reelection. Trump, however, won the state in 2016 when he defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and in 2020 when he lost reelection to Biden, who was vice president under Obama during both of Obama's two terms in office. democrats hold all of the statewide offices in Ohio and three seats on the seven-member largely Republican Ohio Supreme Court. 

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com the most read Black digital newspaper and blog in Ohio and in the Midwest Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

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