Donald Trump: “I don't think the people of this country are going to stand for it...This is a disgrace. And you ought to go after this attorney general.” pic.twitter.com/gXlff6Fs8R
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) October 2, 2023
In addition to Letitia James, Trump also attacked the judge, Arthur Engoron, whom he called a "rogue judge" for pursuing a "witch hunt." He "should be out of office," said Trump, while adding his customary description of every legitimate action taken against him: "It’s a disgrace."
The "witch hunt" includes civil prosecution of Trump's wildly inflated assets for favorable bank loans and other fictional documentation, such as claiming his Trump Tower apartment of 11,000 squire feet was actually 30,000 square feet. Something things are pretty easy to check. That was one of them, and it's why Trump is now in danger of losing all his New York holdings, along with having to pay a $250 million fine.
His penalty should transcend mere fines and the return of real estate eyesores, however. He may baselessly think the judge should be out of office, but his vindictive, life-threatening ass should be in jail. Like, today.
There is no alternative, factual interpretation of "you ought to go after" Ms. James other than "hunt her down and do serious injury to her bodily welfare." About that, there is no dispute; there can be no dispute.
Why, then, is Trump permitted to remain free? — permitted to hit the streets and persistently encourage his fanatical, gun-toting followers to do his criminal bidding until they do, in fact, commit a bloody act of vengeance.
It's only a matter of time. Someone — an attorney general, a prosecutor, a judge — will lose his or her life in a microcosmic instance of Hitler's night of the long knives. It's what fascists do.
P.S.: Trump's public call for the assassination of New York's attorney general was the awful centerpiece of his appearance at court today. And yet The NY Times fails to even mention it until the 11th paragraph of its coverage. Its headline is "Trump's Fraud Trial Starts with Attacks on Attorney General and Judge," but in the text, Trump's verbal plea for a contract killing took some doing to find.