NY Prosecutors Cite Bomb Threats In Gag Order Filing

Politico reports:

In a filing made public Friday, prosecutors cited “intensified” threats against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, his family and the office’s staff, disclosing that two people involved in the case received bomb threats at their homes on the first day of the trial. Prosecutors described those threats as “directly connected to defendant’s dangerous rhetoric about this prosecution.”

They also wrote that officials had logged 56 “actionable” threats during and immediately following the trial, as well as hundreds of threatening emails and phone calls.

Trump has been fighting for weeks to overturn the gag order, which bars him from publicly attacking witnesses, court staff and prosecutors other than Bragg, as well as family members of Bragg and of the judge. During the trial, he was twice held in contempt for 10 public statements found to violate the gag order.

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Manhattan DA seeks to largely maintain Trump’s gag order, citing threats to prosecutors https://t.co/g8jW7kiH0I

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DA Bragg, his family, and staff of the DA’s office have been targeted with 56 “actionable threats” since April, the NYPD determined, according to the filing —> pic.twitter.com/WoHqXPl1Sd

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