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.

  • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      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.