Trump supporters begin gathering in NYC with indictment in Stormy Daniels hush money probe possible Wednesday

Donald Trump supporters flocked to the lower Manhattan courthouses Tuesday — the day he incorrectly predicted his arrest — with possible criminal charges against the former president expected to land as soon as Wednesday in the Stormy Daniels hush money probe.

Cheri Saxon, 45, said she had traveled from Chicago to protest the potential indictment on charges related to Trump’s alleged payment to porn star Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

“I’m here to protest what’s going on right now with the DA here,” Saxon said. “I hate Biden. I hate this whole administration. They’re ruining us. Biden is making us look weak. He’s bringing us into World War III. I mean, for Christ’s sake, it’s gotta stop. We need to stage a coup and get him out of there.”

Matthew Eastman, 34, of Manhattan, was selling “Make America Great Again” caps off the back of his pickup truck outside Family Court.

“I’m out to support my president. I don’t want to see him go to jail. I don’t think he’s going. I think he’s a free man. He deserves to be free. He did a lot for this country that no other president has,” Eastman said, waving a flag that read “F--- Biden.”

DA Alvin Bragg has remained mum on the status of a grand jury investigation into Trump believed to be wrapping up based on an invitation to testify extended to Trump himself, which he declined. Instead, his lawyers sent veteran defense lawyer Robert Costello.

The panel heard from Costello on Monday. The attorney, who’s represented former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and right-wing strategist Steve Bannon, said he contacted prosecutors seeking to provide evidence he said would discredit Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime fixer-turned-enemy.

Cohen, who’s twice testified before the grand jury, is central to the probe into the $130,000 payment to buy Daniels’ silence about a sexual tryst she alleges she had with Trump during a 2006 Lake Tahoe charity golf event. He went to federal prison for issuing the payment to Daniels, spending half his sentence at his family residence at Trump Park Ave. in an ankle monitor.

Costello acted as a legal adviser to Cohen after the FBI raided his office and hotel room in 2018. He sought to show grand jurors 321 emails concerning their relationship. He said prosecutors were only interested in six and that he urged the panel to request a review of all the correspondence.

The emails that Costello said prosecutors asked about, which The News obtained, all relate to him trying to cement Cohen as a client after the FBI raid and Costello’s connections to Giuliani and then-President Trump.

In one of the emails dated April 19, 2018, Costello writes Cohen, “I am sure you saw the news that Giuliani is joining the Trump legal team. I told you my relationship with Rudy which could be very very useful to you.”

Days later, on April 21, Costello wrote Cohen again, reporting that Giuliani was glad to hear Cohen planned on retaining his firm.

“Michael, I just spoke to Rudy Giuliani and told him I was on your team. Rudy was thrilled and said this could not be a better situation for the President or you,” reads an excerpt. “He said thank you for opening this back channel of communication and asked me to keep in touch.”

It’s not clear why prosecutors asked about the specific emails or how they may impact potential charges, but they shed light on what the grand jury is hearing in the confidential probe. Bragg spokeswoman Danielle Filson declined to comment.

In August 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to charges related to the hush money payments, including criminal tax evasion and campaign finance violations among other crimes, and flipped on Trump, famously referring to him as “Individual 1.”

Cohen said he made the payment at Trump’s direction for the “principal purpose” of influencing the 2016 presidential election. The feds said he falsely billed Trump for retainer services, with the president and his company falsely logging the reimbursement as “legal expenses.”

Sources connected to the investigation say DA Bragg is considering felony level charges against Trump related to how he paid Cohen back for payment to Daniels.

Cohen was in the building on standby during Costello’s testimony but left without the DA calling him as a rebuttal witness. It wasn’t clear whether they planned to when grand jurors next meet on Wednesday.

Once all the evidence is presented, the panel is expected to vote on whether to indict Trump. Unlike at a trial, when jurors must unanimously reach a verdict, the DA only needs to convince the majority to secure an indictment. The criminal charges would mark the first ever brought against a former U.S. president.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Daniels noted how she plans to celebrate if Trump winds up getting his mugshot taken.

“I won’t walk, I’ll dance down the street when he is ‘selected‘ to go to jail,“ Daniels said.