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”.
"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.
Plus, lawyers are obligated to defend their client, even when they do something indefensible. I don't think even the best lawyer could've come up with a better argument.
I would vote for any female that met him on a debate stage and dropped references to 1) his mushroom dick 2) his tiny hands and 3) the fact that he had to pay hookers to touch his mushroom dick and keep quiet about it.
He would call her any sort of horrible names names on stage and her comeback would be 'don't you pay $200,000 extra for that?'
Trump is a cult leader. Much like Charles Mason, all he has to do is speak, and there are carzy cultist who will do what he wants.
Trump: "Stand back and stand by". The Proud Boys are an armed and violent hate group at Trump command. There are many metally ill people that listen to their leader and they are also standing by for Trump to speak.
Maybe I watch too many interviews of Trump supporters talking, or listen to them at work. They say crazy things and Trump is able to connect--or more accurately, use them. But you are right, there are many who are not crazy and support Trump. They just give a small knowing smile when they hear their fellow supporters doing the crazy talk.
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.