Both Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan have reportedly received death threats following attacks by Donald Trump, who was warned on Tuesday to “refrain from making statements that are likely to incite violence and civil unrest.”
The judge overseeing the Trump hush money case, Juan Merchan, and his family and court in Manhattan have received unsubstantiated threats since Trump’s hearing yesterday, two sources familiar with the matter said. There have been “dozens” of such threats to the judge and his chambers recently, one official said.
Bragg and other top officials in his office also continue to receive threats, one source said. The unsubstantiated threats have been in the form of phone calls, emails, and letters. As Axios noted on Thursday, all of this—Trump’s dangerous rhetoric and the threats it has seemingly inspired—a “crucial question”: What’s it going to take for Merchan to issue a gag order against Trump?J. Michael Luttig,
a former federal judge, told the outlet. He added, however, that “if the former president forces the Manhattan criminal court, the court will have no choice.
Incidentally, Trump’s subsequent attacks on Merchan and various prosecutors came after the ex-president’s eldest sonthat any gag order on Trump would be “unconstitutional” and “further demonstrate the weaponization of the New York justice system.”
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