A Donald Trump supporter was arrested Tuesday after allegedly pulling a knife on two passersby – including a woman with two young children – outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where reporters have been gathered in anticipation of the former president’s possible indictment.
The 39-year-old blonde — who was waving a neon-yellow sign that had “I STAND WITH TRUMP DO YOU?” scrawled in blank ink — got into an argument with the pair of onlookers around 3:30 p.m. outside Manhattan Supreme Court, officials and law enforcement sources said.
NYS Court Police officers spotted the escalating fight, pulled their guns and hauled the blade-wielding woman into custody, according to state Office of Court Administration spokesman Lucian Chalfen. The knife appeared to be a box cutter, according to photos.
The dust-up took place just feet from the press pen set up not far from the building where a grand jury has been hearing evidence tied to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump, 76.
A court spokesman ID’ed the woman as Angelica Rucker. She was charged Wednesday with criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and three counts of harassment, Chalfen said.
Since Trump claimed he would be arrested on March 21, which led to a surge in donations, there have been at least two bomb threats called into the courthouse and a death threat sent to Bragg.
The former president has called on his supporters to protest any arrest and threatened Bragg with “death and destruction” if he is criminally charged.
The grand jury did not meet on Tuesday and is not expected to consider evidence in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case for the rest of the week, sources have told The Post.
Bragg reportedly wants to charge the ex-president with falsification of business records related to $130,000 in hush money paid by Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.