'A pattern you can't ignore': Expert points finger at Trump after Engoron bomb threat
After reports that Judge Arthur Engoron received a bomb threat the night before he was expected to hear closing arguments in Donald Trump's now-$320 million financial fraud suit playing out in a Manhattan courtroom, CNN legal analyst Elie Hoenig put the blame on Donald Trump and his extremist rhetoric.
Speaking with in-studio host Kate Bolduan, the former prosecutor ticked off the multiple threats that have been made against judges and prosecutors pursuing the former president for his criminal actions.
Getting right to the point Hoenig bluntly stated, "This happens every time."
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"What judge, what prosecutor involved in a Trump case has not had some variation of this.? " he asked. "You think of this judge, Judge [Tanya] Chutkan who received threats, prosecutors, the D.A. in Fulton County, Fani Willis and her staff have been threatened. [Special counsel] Jack Smith and his staff have been threatened."
'It's a pattern you cannot ignore: Trump puts out the word, somebody out there will act on it," he elaborated. "And it's eminently predictable and it's a sad state that we're in.
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