Prosecutors warned judges about his fraud trial threats. His attorneys called it ‘irrelevant information’

Donald Trump’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 Engoron’s opposition to a freeze on a gag order in the case includes a statement from the court’s top security official, who has collected “hundreds of threats, disparaging and harassing comments and antisemitic messages” that followed the former president’s harassment.

Federal prosecutors – who are seeking a separate gag order – 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 president’s attorneys dismissed those threats as “irrelevant”.

  • logicbomb@lemmy.world
    37·
    1 year ago

    Trump has gotten closer than you’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 Milley’s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.” (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
      101·
      1 year ago

      Valid, but he still didn’t make an explicit call for action. That’s why he keeps getting away with it. This court needs to shut this crap down.