Request not met. At least, in the hours after that moment in which history was made in the United States with the criminal indictment of a former president for the first time. Little to no reaction on the streets of New York, despite the claim of Donald Trump.
It may be a mirage, which is why the Big Apple police are in a situation of maximum alert, with the order to all their officers to come to work in uniform starting this Friday. A long weekend until Tuesday, the day in which this pioneering accusation is expected to be formalized before the Lower Manhattan court.
The police (NYPD) and the secret services met this Friday to begin to specify the details of the detention device (without handcuffs).
Trump, who was caught offside by the announcement, when he believed that his anticipated outburst had partially neutralized the matter, asked his people a few days ago to take to the streets to protest, "to recover the country", and even He predicted "fire and destruction."
Shortly after the news broke on Thursday night that it opened unexplored territory in the United States, in the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, a reference temple for its devotees, there were a dozen cameras and two of its faithful that did not give enough in front of so many reporters.
One of those two people responded to the name of Susan Miller. He wore a cap with the inscription Let's go Brandon, a coded insult to President Biden.
The woman, tired of "giving interviews", set the condition that she had to be given a cigarette to talk. In the end she agreed. "All this is political, Trump is innocent, he is a wonderful man," he proclaims, looking at the tower of golden letters as if it were the work of a pharaoh. “Alvin Bragg wants to turn a nonsense into a crime, he makes up the story,” she adds.
Bragg is Manhattan's chief prosecutor, and Troy Olson, a lawyer and author, argued that thanks to him "Trump has already been re-elected." He ruled that the case of the porn actress "is weak", although he acknowledges that he is unaware of the charges, and concluded that "they only seek to remove the former president from the ballot papers and make us look like a banana republic."
He did not want to know anything about the assault on the Capitol. He said that paying someone to shut him up is common in politics and added that "all the presidents, except Jimmy Carter, have surpassed Richard Nixon in corruption." Nixon had to leave the post of president in 1974 due to the spying scandal on the Democrats at Watergate and his successor, Gerald Ford, forgave him.
The absolute tranquility in the former residence of the former president continued in the area of Lower Manhattan where the courts are and where the action is expected in the coming days. There were few protesters, almost all anti-Trump. “I'm here to thank Bragg and the 23 New York citizens on the grand jury,” Ben said.
"I would have preferred an indictment for a political issue than for the porn star," Sarah added. “This is a historic day for civilization. The United States, the most dominant country in the world, with this experiment in democracy, shows that the justice system expresses itself with force," Gavin concluded.
Police sources indicated that they had detected calls from the extreme right on the networks. On the internet it was warned that this was a trap and they recognized that the uniformed New Yorkers, a true army, are not soft like those of the Capitol or the Washington police.
