Bracing for impact – Digby's Hullabaloo

Does anyone doubt there’ll be trouble?

The New York City Criminal Courts Building at 100 Centre Street.

Law enforcement agencies are prepping for a possible Trump indictment as early as next week

Meaning pro-Trump violence:

Local, state and federal law enforcement and security agencies are preparing for the possibility that former President Donald Trump will be indicted as early as next week, according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations.

Law enforcement agencies are conducting preliminary security assessments, the officials said, and are discussing potential security plans in and around the Manhattan Criminal Court, at 100 Centre Street, in case Trump is charged in connection with an alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels and travels to New York to face any charges.

The officials stress that the interagency conversations and planning are precautionary in nature because no charges have been filed.

The agencies involved include the NYPD, New York State Court Officers, the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the officials said.

NBC News has reached out to all of those agencies for comment, and all have declined to comment.

Does anyone think MAGA cult’s reaction will limit itself to Manhattan?

Marcy Wheeler urges the stenographer press not to make things worse:

Here's a headline that is accurate:

The former President is using reports of an imminent arrest to incite violence on social media.

You don't have to name him, accept his label of violence as protest, or disseminate his all-caps language. Don't reward him for this incitement.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 18, 2023

Trump has spent YEARS training journalists to reward him every time he ratchets up his language.

The more outrageous, the bigger reward from the press. Pavlov's pups exercised more self-control.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 18, 2023

We should expect better. I don’t.