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