Nassau County police on Thursday have responded to a bomb threat at the home of Judge Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told NBC News.
The threat comes hours before closing arguments in the trial are scheduled to begin, with those arguments still expected to proceed.
A bomb squad was called to Engoron’s home and was investigating Thursday morning; it is unclear whether Engoron was home at the time.
Trump had asked to deliver part of the closing arguments himself, but Engoron rejected the request Wednesday in a contentious email exchange with Trump’s lawyers after the former president refused to commit to only speaking about the facts of the case and not engage in any attacks.
The judge didn’t really reject their request, they simply ghosted him when he told them the terms under which he would accept their request, and after 2 or 3 deadline extensions their opportunity lapsed.
In all fairness, they did whine first before ghosting.
My little daydream is that thr judge’s terms were something simple like “I want your statement beforehand so I can review it. But, you have to write it yourself, by hand. Your own hand.” And he just couldn’t muster up the gumption to do his own work.
“YOU’RE PICKING ON ME! MY NANNY WAS NEVER MEAN TO ME! THE WORD NO IS EMOTIONAL ABUSE! DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! BARON JOHN DONALD TRUMP, ESQUIRE, DOCTOR, AND PROFESSOR OF SELF INTEREST! YOU’RE A BUNCH OF MEANIE ASSHOLES! DON’T MAKE ME MAKE MY FRIENDS BEAT YOU UP!”
This doesn’t happen after a coup, does it?
I’ve never lived in a place where the people in power took over in a coup. But, when I read about them, I never hear of the people who live there sending bomb threats to judges who are siding with the perpetrators of the coup. When a group takes power in a coup, they’re normally ruthless, they kill people who threaten them, and they make it clear that dissent won’t be tolerated.
So, these MAGA / Q-Anon types believe that Biden took power in a coup by stealing the election. But, they also believe that it was such a soft coup that they didn’t bother to jail or kill Trump. It was such a gentle coup that the only “political prisoners” are the people who stormed the capitol, and then only after long investigations and public trials. It’s such a kind coup that they are happy to allow demonstrations, TV networks that oppose them, discussions on the Internet that they can’t control. These people also think that they can get away with sending bomb threats because the regime that took power in the coup is even softer on crime than the typical government, which would arrest people who sent bomb threats.
How do you send a bomb threat to a judge without thinking are we the baddies? At some point you have to stop and think: our side is doing X, their side is doing Y.
“our side” “their side” Sacking the capitol Stealing an election Sending bomb threats to judges Killing babies Abusing presidential power on day one as retribution against enemies, but only for one day Charging Trump in several open criminal and civil trials Paraphrasing Hitler Charging and trying people who rioted on Jan 6th in normal, open criminal trials … … Like, how do you make a list like that and never once consider whether your side might be the baddies?
dude they know they are the bad guys they literally go to militia meetings and went to jan 6 lmao /[ssss
They do those things because they think they’re the good guys fighting “the deep state” or something.
Oh, they know what they’re doing, 100%. Just like people readily forward misinformation that’s convenient to their cause fully knowing that it’s false, these folks will continue to parrot right-wing talking points for the same reasons. I think one relatively famous but small YouTuber came out and said so in their podcast openly and caused a stir on the Left. Even Musk has shared some mask-off images about forwarding false narratives. They know.
This is the product of the opportunistic and amoral abusing The First Amendment to influence the greedy, selfish, and hateful to act against their own self interest to preserve the status quo of the former. This is literally The Jerry Springer Congress. It’s intentional. They know that a lot of people love this trashy high school mean girl bullshit. All of the new Right Wing Grifters know this, and bank on it.
Being mildly autistic, and maybe from learning to think critically from neglect and abuse in my childhood, causing me to distrust authority, I’ve never the understood the need of some people to belong to a tribe, and the need to have an authority figure to make them feel safe, and tell them what to think and do. I don’t get it. But apparently, half of the population does. Fascists understand this, and use it.
This country is in big trouble. Half of the voters seem to want a King. Capital K. They want to be ruled. By an overgrown child who is an entitled, spoiled, emotionally stunted narcissist who is incapable of empathy, compassion or kindness. Who is clearly suffering from early stage dementia, or Alzheimer’s. Which his father died of. Who literally argued that he could have his rivals in a democratic election murdered, and be immune from criminal charges.
That should scare the shit out of everyone not stupid.
This country is in big trouble. Half of the voters seem to want a King. Capital K.
Like Stephen King? Great. I wouldn’t want a monarch, but if it’s a capital-k King, that’s fine.
of course he faces threats of violence… any time a Trump supporter doesn’t get what they want, they threaten violence and anything else they can think of…
The phrase you’re looking for is “stochastic terrorism”
(that’s not snarkiness from me, that’s the title of the article)
i just call it being a little bitch about everything… you can call it whatever you like… i don’t romanticize their stupidity in order to sound intellectual…
It’s not about sounding intellectual, it’s about recognizing that Trump’s behavior leads directly to these actions. Yes, magas are little bitches about everything, but those little bitches aren’t randomly fucking shit up, they are doing so for their leader and in direct response to his rhetoric and wishes.
A great example of how his followers just want to blow up and maim anything and everything that gets in their way…
I wonder what’s going to happen when the swath of impeachments going on fails.
They have no intention of following through on any of them, it’s all theater for the base to distract from Trump’s legal troubles. What the GOP do when their anti-Christ is sentenced should be interesting, do they just drop and distance from him, or do they choose a “disciple” to carry on his evil deeds and speak for him?
They have no intention of following through on any of them, …
That is probably true, but it’s elementary for them to say, “The rADiCaL LEfT has once again prevented us from rightfully removing these evil and corrupt officials from power!” (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, swatting and bomb threats at least)
It’s all they got, they have absolutely no platform that any of them can agree upon anymore. It’s divide the country and confuse the base so they don’t catch on, and then grift like it might all end when Trump is convicted.
Something something mad about Portland government property when my entertainment news tells me to be
It’s only a matter of time before one of these fucks actually does something.
Edit: They’ve already done plenty… I don’t know why I worded my original comment like that. I guess I’m just waiting for someone to do something that even the most head-in-the-sand people can’t ignore, as if J6 wasn’t enough.
And then the DOJ will be shocked Pikachu face.
As if the DOJ could be proactive without Congressional Republicans fanning the flames of an insurrection of their own. Did you see them grill Merrick Garland?
At this point I think it’s easier to enumerate the ways in which we’re NOT fucked.
Ok, I’ll start: Only SOME of the rivers are on fire SOME of the time…
“I’m not dead…yet”
He’s just trying to delay the decision because he knows he’s guilty.
r/conservative not caring, yet gaslighting with BLM name calling these days. They have no shame.
I’d wager over half that sub is posting from Moscow.
Goddamnedfascists
