Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he expects to be arrested in connection with the yearslong investigation into a hush-money scheme involving adult film actress Stormy Daniels and called on his supporters to protest any such move.

In a web-based entertainment post, Trump, alluding to himself, said the “main conservative competitor and previous leader of the US will be captured on Tuesday of the following week” – however, he didn’t say why he hopes to be captured. His group said after Trump’s post that it had not gotten any warnings from examiners.

In an echo of Trump’s appeals to supporters in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, he called Saturday for action, writing: “Protest, take our nation back.”

The former president has been agitating for his team to get his base riled up and believes that an indictment would help him politically, multiple people briefed on the matter.

Any incrimination of the previous president, who is running for re-appointment in 2024, would stamp a noteworthy first and immediately change the political discussion around a generally troublesome figure. While Trump has a broad history of common suit both when getting down to business, a lawbreaker accusation would address a sensational heightening of his legitimate misfortunes as he attempts to recover the White House.

One more observer is supposed to affirm Monday before the stupendous jury exploring the quiet cash installments, as indicated by a source acquainted with the examination. It isn’t certain if this would be the last observer before it votes on a potential prosecution.

A representative for Trump said before Saturday that the previous president has not gotten a notice from the Manhattan Head prosecutor’s Office in regards to any possible prosecution, however, was “legitimately featuring his blamelessness” in his post.

Seeing a possible line of the guard from conservatives on Legislative hall Slope, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California conservative, tweeted Saturday that any expected incrimination of the previous president would address “a ridiculous maltreatment of force” from the Manhattan Lead prosecutor’s Office.

Mike Pence, who filled in as VP under Trump, repeated McCarthy’s message on Saturday. “All things considered, in the same way as other Americans, I’m simply – I’m shocked,” Pence told Breitbart News in a radio meeting. The previous VP asserted the Manhattan lead prosecutor’s examination “stinks” of “political arraignment.”