Donald Trumpās supporters unleashed a wave of death threats and antisemitic and homophobic messages to the judge overseeing his fraud trial, as well as his chief clerk, according to a state court filing this week.
A filing to support New York Justice Arthur Engoronās opposition to a freeze on a gag order in the case includes a statement from the courtās top security official, who has collected āhundreds of threats, disparaging and harassing comments and antisemitic messagesā that followed the former presidentās harassment.
Federal prosecutors ā who are seeking a separate gag order ā shared those threats with the federal appeals court judges who will decide whether Mr Trump should be gagged in his election interference case.
But on Friday, the former presidentās attorneys dismissed those threats as āirrelevantā.
There is possibly a reasonable argument in there. The gag order prohibited Trump from targeting people, not others.
However this should (hopefully) fall flat against the raw numbers that have been presented: 3rd party threats went up each time Trump and/or his lawyers said something malicious, and they went down after the gag order was put in place.
I think the āI didnāt do anything, they didā is their argument in the January 6th trial too.
Yeah, and judges have already rejected that argument when it came to dismissing the case.