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”.

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    1 year ago

    “All my client did is say that the court personnel should die. That his followers proceeded to threaten to kill them is unrelated.” You have to wonder if the lawyers involved are just trying to do their best to represent a client they know is batshit fucking crazy, or if they’ve actually bought into the madness.

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      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 didn’t tell anyone to harass the judge and the clerk, they were just exercising their right to free speech.

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      Maybe they are just the best Trump could find after not paying his former lawyers or they now are in prison.

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      I am sure there are some lawyers who buy into it but probably not many since lawyer education requires extensive critical reasoning and logic skills.

      The lawyers are there to do a job… Represent their client and make every effort possible in the interest of their client within the bounds of the law.