Former President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that prosecutors were likely to arrest him Tuesday in connection to a $130,000 payment made to keep an adult film star quiet about her alleged tryst with Trump.
That didn’t happen Tuesday, but in social media posts and fundraising emails, Trump has painted himself as a martyr and asked his supporters to protest what would be the essentially unprecedented arrest of a former president and presidential candidate.
In North Carolina, rumors of Trump’s indictment immediately brought back memories of what happened in 2011. That’s when another presidential candidate — former Sen. John Edwards — was arrested on similar allegations of spending $900,000 to keep an affair and his daughter a secret.
