Donald Trump has spent the last few days on social media posting screenshots of tweets purporting to show the New York wife judging Arthur Engoron by belittling the former president. Engoron is overseeing the lawsuit against Trump for allegedly lying about his net worth and the price of his properties. But the tweets that went viral, thanks in large part to a far-right conspiracy theorist, are not his.
“Judge Engoron’s wife has not sent any social media messages related to the former president,” Al Baker, a spokesman for the New York Office of Court Administration, wrote in a message received via Messenger on Thursday. “They don’t belong to him. “
Trump appears to have won the tweets of Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who recently caused panic in X by insisting that a car explosion at the U. S. -Canada border was caused by Muslim terrorists seeking to make their way into Macy’s on Thanksgiving Day. It turned out that the car was driven through an American traveling to Canada and the FBI said there was no obvious connection to terrorism. Loomer was banned from Twitter, now X, for years due to her anti-Muslim bigotry, but got her account back after Elon Musk spoke on the site in late 2022.
Engoron and his team have been targeted through Trump on Truth Social, the former president’s social media platform he introduced in 2022, and Trump at one point shared a shirtless photo of Engoron running, all of which has since been deleted.
But the attacks have become more private in recent days, as Trump has hinted that the tweets he shares come from Engoron’s wife. Loomer presented no evidence as to why he believed the account, which carried Dawn Marie’s call before it was deleted, belonged to a member of Engoron’s family.
Engoron imposed a gag order in early October against Trump during the fraud trial after the former president posted a photo of the judge’s clerk, Allison Greenfield, with Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, and referred to her as “Schumer’s girlfriend. “He reportedly received death threats during the trial.
Trump has continually threatened potential witnesses in his indictments, going so far as to recommend that General Mark Milley deserves to be executed for treason. The gag order was temporarily lifted but reinstated Thursday through an appeals court, though there is no guarantee Trump will comply with the order. Trump has already been fined twice for violating the gag order, racking up a $15,000 fine so far.
Final results in the New York case are not expected until January 2024, according to the New York Times. Trump has been indicted four times and will nearly be in court for much of the 2024 presidential campaign. But that hasn’t dented his popularity. In fact, it turns out that it energizes your base.
A new Harris vote gives Trump 68 percent support in the Republican Party, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with just nine percent. And Trump has a real chance of becoming president again, if the last national election is to be believed. Many recent votes give Trump a slight edge over President Joe Biden if the election were held today. Even states that are considered classic battleground states have Trump within the ballot’s margin of error. For example, in Minnesota, respondents chose Biden (45%) over Trump (42%), seeming like anything can happen in next year’s election.