The office of the New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial has been bombarded with death threats and antisemitic abuse following the former president’s online attacks.
Judge Arthur Engoron and his clerk, Allison Greenfield, are said to have received hundreds of threatening, harassing and disparaging messages via telephone and social media.
Attorneys for the New York state court system made the case for the imposition of gag orders on Trump, citing “serious and credible” threats against Engoron and Greenfield.
Transcribed voicemail messages, disclosed in court filings, revealed the extent of the abuse directed at the pair. Alongside racist and sexist attacks the messages contain several death threats. “I mean, honestly, you should be assassinated,” said one. “You should be killed. You should be not assassin executed [sic]. You should be executed.”
They’re not sending their best . . . well, come to think of it, they probably are.
Engoron would do well to install a menu on his phone system, because these people need hard cognitive assistance.
“Thank you for calling the offices of Judge Engoron and his staff. Please press one for assassination messages, press two for execution messages, press three for painful torture messages, press five for overwhelming contempt, press six for general messages of hatred, press seven if you are confused about the type of message you would like to leave but you know Jesus wants you to do it . . . Your call is important to us. If you wait on the line, this menu will be repeated.”
And then sit back and see how many go to number four, which should transfer to a recording of maniacal laughter and calls of Loser! Learn to count! before disconnecting altogether.