Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan have both reportedly received threats following Trump’s attacks, as has Merchan’s family.

In the weeks leading up to his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, Donald Trump regularly and viciously attacked Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor leading the investigation into his hush money deals. Because these (often racist) attacks led to at least one death threat—and perhaps because he’s all too aware of Trump’s penchant for inciting “death and destruction”—Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing the case, warned on Tuesday that the ex-president should “refrain from making statements that are likely to incite violence and civil unrest.” Which Trump being Trump, i.e. a dangerous blowhard, promptly proceeded to ignore.

Speaking at Mar-a-Lago hours after he was charged with 34 class E felonies, the former president and current presidential candidate continued his verbal assault on the district attorney and took aim at Merchan as well. In the case of the former, Trump claimed that Bragg was a “criminal” who “illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury information, for which he should be prosecuted.” (He also took a shot at Bragg’s wife.) As for Merchan, Trump called him a “Trump-hating judge, with a Trump-hating wife and family, whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign—and a lot of it.” The former leader of the free world also took the opportunity to take shots at Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis, whom he described as a “local racist Democrat district attorney in Atlanta who is doing everything in her power to indict me over an absolutely perfect phone call,” and DOJ-appointed special counsel Jack Smith, whom Trump dubbed a “lunatic.” The former commander in chief also bizarrely suggested Smith had changed his name, musing, “I wonder what it was prior to a change.”

Trump: I have Trump hating judge with a Trump hating wife and Trump hating family pic.twitter.com/PyAXCWn3mv

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 5, 2023

The result? More death threats.

Per NBC News:

The judge overseeing the Trump hush money case, Juan Merchan, and his family and court in Manhattan have received unsubstantiated threats since Trump’s hearing yesterday, two sources familiar with the matter said. There have been “dozens” of such threats to the judge and his chambers recently, one official said.

Bragg and other top officials in his office also continue to receive threats, one source said. The unsubstantiated threats have been in the form of phone calls, emails, and letters.

As Axios noted on Thursday, all of this—Trump’s dangerous rhetoric and the threats it has seemingly inspired—raises a “crucial question”: What’s it going to take for Merchan to issue a gag order against Trump?

“There is no court that would want to impose a gag order on a president of the United States,” J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge, told the outlet. He added, however, that “if the former president forces the Manhattan criminal court, the court will have no choice.” After Merchan warned on Tuesday that both prosecutors and Trump’s team should “refrain from making statements that are likely to incite violence and civil unrest,” the ex-president’s attorney insisted his client’s previous rants on Truth Social were simply a result of his being “upset” and “frustrated” with the case and not meant to cause harm. “I don't share your view that certain language is justified by frustration,” Merchan responded.

Incidentally, Trump’s subsequent attacks on Merchan and various prosecutors came after the ex-president’s eldest son tweeted a story with a photo of Merchan’s daughter.

Not surprisingly, congressional Republicans are already insisting that any gag order on Trump would be “unconstitutional” and “further demonstrate the weaponization of the New York justice system.”

Area man appears to be unfamiliar with both Logan Roy and Donald Trump

To be fair, he only worked for Trump for 11 days.

Scaramucci: This is a family guy.. He sort of the Logan Roy of politics
Ruhle: Logan Roy is not family man
Scaramucci: You got to watch the show very carefully. He actually loves those kids.. pic.twitter.com/r5eIDmEdzC

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 6, 2023

Conservative-controlled Supreme Court does something right for a change

Don’t get used to it.

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets transgender girl remain on middle-school track team. Justices Alito, Thomas dissent. It's the first time the court has acted on a wave of new state restrictions on athletic participation.

— Greg Stohr (@GregStohr) April 6, 2023

It appears the feeling is mutual, lady

Marjorie Taylor Greene on New York: It’s disgusting… It was repulsive, it smells bad. I think it's a very terrible place. pic.twitter.com/6AOd8KBBvs

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 6, 2023