Prosecutors warned judges about his fraud trial threats. His attorneys called it ā€˜irrelevant informationā€™

Donald Trumpā€™s 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 Engoronā€™s opposition to a freeze on a gag order in the case includes a statement from the courtā€™s top security official, who has collected ā€œhundreds of threats, disparaging and harassing comments and antisemitic messagesā€ that followed the former presidentā€™s 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 presidentā€™s attorneys dismissed those threats as ā€œirrelevantā€.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    39Ā·
    1 year ago

    He never comes right out and says that though. He whines about how the person is horrible and a traitor and how they are destroying the country, but he never explicitly calls for death or violence. He never tells his followers to attack or harass his targets, but they all know full well what he wants them to do when he selects a target for them.

    This is how mob bosses talk. Giving orders without explicitly stating what they want done. That way they can turn around, just like Trump is doing, and claim that they didnā€™t tell anyone to harass the judge and the clerk, they were just exercising their right to free speech.