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.
Literally “your honor, it’s not fair”
“your guy had ample opportunity to testify during the trial.”
Yeah, it’s so ridiculous. Extremely clear that he just wanted to go on one of his usual rants and didn’t want any restrictions. It’s what he tried to do when he was being examined by the prosecution. He tried to pull out and read from a paper he had in his pocket that would “explain everything” and how he did nothing wrong.
FAIR?! WHO’S THE FUCKING NIHILISTS AROUND HERE! YOU BUNCH OF FUCKING CRYBABIES?!
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!”
Been hearing about threats to the judge for some time now. Can’t wait till we start seeing these people charged and prosecuted.
Cowards do their research and remain mostly anonymous. There has been a rash of online bomb threats lately and very few people have been held accountable.
Perhaps they should hold the original source accountable for stochastic terrorism. If twice is coincidence and three times is a pattern, what is it called when it happens every single time?
The new world order.
Can’t wait till we start seeing these people charged and prosecuted.
This should have been DAY ONE where apparently everyone in the world except the judges recognized this was going to happen. Remember that piss-poor “gag order” that prevented trump from talking about members of the court AFTER he’d already said a bunch of incendiary things and even then he continued to do so; so they fined him like twenty cents? The one that got suspended by a circuit judge who was 100 years old and eventually was persuaded that yeah maybe it should stay?
Fuck. I don’t know if these guys are just right-wing idiots themselves who thought maybe trump was possibly somewhat normal but for the rest of us this is just another in a mountain of “no shit sherlock” trump things.
It was this judge that put the initial partial gag order in place, and when he did it he basically said, “you can talk shit about me all you want,I believe that too be your right, just don’t bring my staff into it.”
Then when Trump continued to bring up his clerk, the judge fined him what he was allowed to, which was something like $10k. Wish it could be more, but them’s the rules.
As has been stated elsewhere in this thread, the various judges on these cases are giving Trump and team a lot of leeway, because they don’t want anything overturned on appeal. This judge has actually shut a lot of nonsense down, while allowing other nonsense to go forward, while being extremely sarcastic about it. He also just told Trump that he won’t be able to testify (ie rant) during closing arguments in this case.
They won’t do it until after everything settles and likely very quietly. They do not want people to think that making threats can make them a name for themselves.
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.
They already have been. For years. Shooting up churches, destroying power grid infrastructure, etc.
It’s just their violence largely affects brown people and that doesn’t fly in the media.
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”
What makes you think they haven’t? Remember 1/6? The MAGAbomber? Proud Boys picking fights in the streets? Hundreds of domestic terrorism events?
Anyone remember Kyle Rittenhouse? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
And Paul Pelosi… I don’t know why I worded it like that. They’ve done plenty. 😔
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.
He’s not getting sentenced for this, it’s a civil trial to assess damages. His business presence in NY will get sold off to pay the debt, and he’ll have to resort to grifting his political contributors to keep up his lifestyle.
Correct, this one is civil and no charges, but I was talking overall when he is convicted in one of the criminal trials. And the GOP is using the fake impeachments/Hunter to distract from all of it, the criminal is going to put him away, but I feel like he is going to be fined BIGLY in NY and then almost certainly lose his appeal.
Something something mad about Portland government property when my entertainment news tells me to be
All of those judges, attorneys and critics might end up in jail when big orange comes into power again. You just have to listen to his „Project 2025“ agenda.
And nobody shall say they didn’t know what they were electing…
„German“ detected.
My keyboard betrayed me.
The next Repubofascist President will pardon them all.
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.
Nothing screams innocent more than making bomb threats.
Oh they are guilty and they know their Führer is too. They are just not familiar with getting punished.
When are we going to designate MAGA Republicans as the terrorists they are?
I think it’s a disservice to good, hardworking Americans to limit it at MAGA Republicans and not all conservatives.
But that might hurt the feelings of the sacred demographic: old white men!
Nah they said they were all domestic terrorists at CPAC 2022. No reason not to take them at their word.
They’re domestic terrorists seeking to install theocratic rule in the U.S. in complete disregard of democracy. They should be dragged into the street and dealt with like the fundamentalists and terrorists they are.
He’s just trying to delay the decision because he knows he’s guilty.
I almost want to see what these bozos would come up with if they tried to build a bomb. Not exactly the best and brightest America has to offer so I’d expect some duds and premature detonations from “Jim-Bob’s Truck Nuts and IED Emporium”.
Having grown up in a redneck community, I’m quite confident Trump supporters can at least make a functional pipe bomb.
Agreed. My dad was a maga guy and a prepper. He knew the process to make plastic explosives and pipe bombs. He even had experience making functional gun powder that he had stashed away in the basement. The crazies shouldn’t be discounted as harmless
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Timothy McVeigh seems to have proven that far right whackos are very capable of building a good bomb. Be careful what you wish for.
Funny (but not funny, as it was a tragedy) that you should bring up the OKC bombings as an example of building a good bomb. McVeigh’s bomb didn’t work properly and failed to fully high order, it was just so much ANFO that it didn’t even matter.
I didn’t know that, but it clearly worked well enough. 😬
Oh absolutely, which is the worrisome part of all of this to me. Someone doesn’t even need to build something good, just good enough.
They could very likely come up with something very functional, making IEDs, and even cooking your own explosive fillers is exceptionally easy, you really only need a very basic understanding of chemistry and circuitry (like grade 9 or 10 level). If extremists hiding in caves in Afghanistan could make consistent and effective devices with HME, then Joe Redneck with Internet access and over the counter access to Ammonium Nitrate Aluminum (Tannerite, which is legal in most states and often sold at gun stores) can probably do it too.
Did everyone forget they did make two PBs for the insurrection, both of which failed. And the FBI is still just sitting around playing with their dicks saying “boy gosh we sure DO want to find that person”.
both of which failed
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.
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