Manhattan DA details wave of threats after Donald Trump's felony convictions
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who secured Donald Trump's conviction in the New York hush money case, has faced threats along with his family and employees.
The prosecutor who secured the first conviction of a former U.S. president argued that Donald Trump should still be subjected to rules meant to protect prosecutors and jurors from his "inflammatory public attacks," citing a wave of threats against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, his family and DA employees this year.
Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in connection with a hush money scheme on May 30, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is set to be sentenced on July 11, just days before the GOP convention.
A new filing from Bragg's team, signed by Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo, includes affidavits from New York Police Department Sergeant Nicholas Pistilli, who said that the NYPD's Threat Assessment & Protection Unit had logged 61 threat cases this year against Bragg or his family and employees, with the majority coming in in the last three months.
He cited examples that read "we will kill you all," "you are dead," "Your life is done" and "RIP," as well as "a post showing sniper shots on people involved in this case or a family member of such a person, and a post disclosing the home address of a DA Office employee."
Bomb threats were also made to the residences of two people involved in the case on April 15, the first day of the trial, Pistilli wrote. The DA also forwarded nearly 500 emails and phone calls for security review just since April, he wrote.
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