Chris Hayes discusses a recent bomb threat against a judge in a Trump trial on MSNBC
Two days after attorneys for Donald Trump advanced the astonishing claim U.S. presidents have legal immunity even if they murder political opponents, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes warned viewers that “we are already living with a version of it.”
He didn’t mean that the current president — that’s Joe Biden — has done anything like that. He referred instead to the way Donald Trump has consistently encouraged violence among his supporters without once suffering consequences.
What sparked Hayes’ commentary were two related events that happened earlier Thursday.
First, early Thursday morning, Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding over Trump’s New York fraud trial, received a bomb threat at his home in Long Island. Later that morning, while presiding over the final day of the trial, Engoron allowed Trump to make a final statement, which in direct defiance of Judge Arthur Engoron’s orders attacked Engoron himself and flinged baseless accusations against him. Trump also made comments that resembled veiled threats of violence.
For some reason, Engoron allowed Trump to speak uninterrupted for nearly 6 minutes instead of citing him for contempt of court, as would have happened for almost any other defendant.
