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Trump lawyers dismiss death threats as ‘irrelevant’ to federal gag order
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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"All my client did is say that the court personnel should die. That his followers proceeded to threaten to kill them is unrelated." You have to wonder if the lawyers involved are just trying to do their best to represent a client they know is batshit fucking crazy, or if they've actually bought into the madness.
He never comes right out and says that though. He whines about how the person is horrible and a traitor and how they are destroying the country, but he never explicitly calls for death or violence. He never tells his followers to attack or harass his targets, but they all know full well what he wants them to do when he selects a target for them.
This is how mob bosses talk. Giving orders without explicitly stating what they want done. That way they can turn around, just like Trump is doing, and claim that they didn't tell anyone to harass the judge and the clerk, they were just exercising their right to free speech.
Trump has gotten closer than you're suggesting to directly call for violence.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/
A real mob boss might be smart enough not to publicly say that a person deserves to die.
Valid, but he still didn't make an explicit call for action. That's why he keeps getting away with it. This court needs to shut this crap down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
Maybe they are just the best Trump could find after not paying his former lawyers or they now are in prison.
I am sure there are some lawyers who buy into it but probably not many since lawyer education requires extensive critical reasoning and logic skills.
The lawyers are there to do a job... Represent their client and make every effort possible in the interest of their client within the bounds of the law.