Justice Arthur Engoron presides over former President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)
Police in New York have reportedly responded to a bomb threat made to the home of New York Justice Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding over Donald Trump‘s civil fraud trial.
The unsettling news was first reported by The Daily Beast and then by the New York Times who cited two sources familiar with the details of the report. A Nassau County Police Department spokesman told Law&Crime on Thursday morning by phone that the department would only state at this time that it was actively “investigating a swatting incident.”
The spokesman would not confirm specifically if it was a bomb threat that was made.
The incident arrives on what is expected to be the closing day of Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York and after the judge informed Trump he would not be permitted to make closing arguments on his own behalf. The judge extended multiple opportunities to Trump’s legal team for him to do so, but the former president’s lawyers refused the terms the judge set, which was to stick to “relevant” topics only.
The alleged bomb threat also comes less than 24 hours after Trump lashed out at Engoron on Truth Social, his social media site. Trump called him a “Trump hating judge.”
Engoron, he added, was colluding with the attorney general to “screw me,” he wrote on Truth Social.
This story is developing.
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