Why the gag order on Trump just might be a good idea:

The Department of Justice submitted a court filing on Thanksgiving arguing that a gag order against the former president must remain while pointing to documents filed as part of the $250 million civil fraud trial in New York.

On Thursday, November 23, Cecil Vandevender, an assistant special counsel for the Department of Justice, notified the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals of a document which said that a gag order needs to be reinstated against Trump during the civil proceedings in New York, where state Attorney General Letitia James has accused the former president of fraudulently inflating the value of his properties in financial statements.

The government’s court filings pointed the appeals court to one section in particular, in which an employee at the New York State Unified Court System details the “hundreds of threatening and harassing voicemail messages” which had been sent to Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the civil trial, as well as the judge’s law clerk Allison Greenfield.

Well how bad can it be, really?

According to an affidavit cited by the DOJ from Charles Hollon, who works in the Public Safety Department’s Judicial Threats Assessment Unit, there are 275 single space pages worth of transcribed threatening messages and voicemails which have been left for Engoron and his court staff since early October.

Several of the “threatening, harassing, disparaging and antisemitic” which were left on Engoron’s chamber’s voicemail were cited in the New York affidavit. One of the messages to Engoron states: “Trust me. Trust me when I say this. I will come for you. I don’t care. Ain’t nobody gonna stop me either.”

A second transcript of the message calls Engoron a “dirty, treasonous piece of trash snake,” and warns “we are coming to remove you permanently.”

I guess that answers that question.