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€.

  • logicbomb@lemmy.world
    38Ā·
    10 months ago

    Trump has gotten closer than youā€™re suggesting to directly call for violence.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/

    Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milleyā€™s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was ā€œan act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.ā€ (The phone call was, in fact, explicitly authorized by Trump-administration officials.)

    A real mob boss might be smart enough not to publicly say that a person deserves to die.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      111Ā·
      10 months ago

      Valid, but he still didnā€™t make an explicit call for action. Thatā€™s why he keeps getting away with it. This court needs to shut this crap down.