The White House is closely monitoring the possibility of violence in demonstrations summoned to support the former president donald trumpwho this Tuesday has to appear before a judge in New York after his imputation last week.

Although spokesman John Kirby has stressed that “active threats” have not been detected, he has indicated that, as a precaution, the Government is closely monitoring the situation and coordinating with state and local authorities in case they need help. “We are following this as closely as we can to be prepared.“, he indicated this Monday. “Violence has no place in the United States,” he stressed.

For now, the White House has avoided making a concrete statement on the accusation of the former US president, about whom the current president, Joe Biden, declined to comment to questions from the press on Friday.

For the moment, Trump supporters had called a meeting on Monday demonstration at palm beach airportin Florida, to fire him before his trip to New York, where he must appear in court for allegedly buy the silence of the porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.

The former president’s trip to New York, where he will stay at Trump Tower, has generated a stir and for this Tuesday there is a a protest at Collect Pond Park, located across from the court of Manhattan where the former president is expected to appear. In it, it is also expected that the ultra-conservative congresswoman will participate Marjorie Taylor Green.

For his part, the mayor of the city, Eric Adams, has assured that the authorities they do not have indications of “credible threats” security and has asserted that New York is the “home” of its citizens, “not a playground in which to unleash anger.” “We have the safest big city in the United States because we respect the rule of law,” she stressed.

Although he feared that Trump’s accusation would cause his followers to take to the streets en masse, in a new episode similar to that of the assault on the Capitol, for now the protests of support have been few.

On Thursday, the former Republican president became the first former US president to face criminal charges after being indicted by a New York grand jury, but the exact charges are unknown for now because the indictment is under summary secrecy. However, this Tuesday the judge will read them to him and possibly it will be known exactly what he is accused of and what penalty he could face.

Trump, for his part, speaks of “political persecution” and “witch hunts”, while his campaign team claimed to have raised up to five million dollars in donations in just 48 hours.