The New York judge’s office overseeing the tax fraud trial of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization has been bombarded with death threats and anti-Semitic abuse following the former president’s online attacks.
Judge Arthur Engoron is trying to reinstate a pair of gag orders that would prevent Trump and other supporters of the former president from publicly attacking his staff, according to Courthouse News Service
Engoron previously claimed his office was “inundated with hundreds of harassing messages” after Trump attacked his top legal assistant on social media and this was the reason for the gag orders in the first place.
On Wednesday, Engoron’s lawyers revealed the content of some of those messages loaded with bad words, insults and threatswhich ranged from crude and bigoted to downright chilling.
“Trust me. Believe me when I say this. I will come for you. I don’t mind. No one will stop me either,” one voicemail said, according to an affidavit from a judicial officer, Capt. Charles Hollon.
In the affidavit attached to Engoron’s filing, Hollon described the safety concerns Engoron and his staff face due to Trump’s disparaging social media posts. The threats are serious, He stated, “they are neither hypothetical nor speculative.”
“Resign now, you dirty, traitorous piece of trash snake,” said another voicemail. “We are going to besmirch, betray, lie and deceive Americans, you and any of you. You are nothing more than a group of communists. We will come to eliminate you permanently.”
The document included transcripts of seven voicemails left in Engoron’s office, most of them heavily worded for vulgarity. But The affidavit states that there are more than 275 single-spaced pages of these threatening transcripts.
Sharing the content of the voicemails is part of Engoron’s attempt to convince the appeals court that reinstate gag orders. The affidavit claims her legal assistant now experiences searching for private or identifying information on the Internet, often with malicious intent, after Trump attacked her on social media in October.
“Greenfield’s personal information, including his personal cell phone number and personal email addresses, has also been compromised,” Hollon wrote in his letter.
Hollon claims that the gag orders worked when they were enacted, until Trump raped them.
Threats are becoming a burden on court security, Hollon says. The harassment has forced his staff to “constantly re-evaluate and evaluate what security protections to implement to ensure the safety of the judge and those around him.”
Since its promulgation on October 3, Trump has twice violated his gag order and, as a result, has been fined a total of $15,000, pending the appeals court’s ruling.
Engoron is overseeing the trial of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million fraud case against Trump and his co-defendants, which will conclude in mid-December.
The state accuses Trump, his sons Eric and Donald Jr., the Trump Organization and the company’s former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, of fraudulently inflate financial statements to sell millions of dollars short to banks and insurers.
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2023-11-23 06:50:01
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