Prosecutor Alvin Bragg has been inundated with death threats and racist harassment since Trump’s conviction for hush money

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been bombarded with death threats and harassing messages in the three weeks since he took office secured the conviction of Donald TrumpThe Daily News learned.

In more than 100 abusive messages received by The News via the district attorney’s campaign website, he was vilified with vile and typographical language, the N-word and racist epithets such as “savage (…) primate, damn (…) rapist” and “GORILLA.”

“Bragg in trouble, Alvin a bad man,” read one message sent via a sign-up form that another sender used to send threats via an email address called “ThisMeansWar.”

The letters were delivered to Bragg’s security detail at the NYPD and passed on to The News by a source who wished to remain anonymous. They represent Part of a significant increase in insults and death threats against the public prosecutor at work and at addresses associated with his campaign since Trump was first impeached, two sources told The News.

Among the threats the prosecutor received during Trump’s seven-week trial and shared with The News was a package sent to Bragg’s campaign mailbox from an address in Portland, Oregon, that contained a photo of a rope with a cutout of his head taped next to it.

“I’m past the point where I just want to see her in jail,” read a caption beneath the printed image. Another photo showed the prosecutor’s head mounted on a symbol representing feces.

Trump, 78, was the first president in the country’s history to be convicted of a crime on May 30, when a jury found him guilty of falsifying New York business records to cover up a scheme to withhold information from voters in 2016. This included allegations that he cheated on his wife, Melania, with porn star Stormy Daniels in 2006.

The former president and his loyal supporters in the Republican Partyarty have relentlessly targeting Bragg since around the time of Trump’s arrestas well as the judge who presided over his trial, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, and their relatives. There was panic over white powder and fake bomb threatsmany of them with messages that reflect the language and baseless conspiracy theories spread by Trump and his allies, and that require increased security measures.

A Utah man killed in a shootout with the FBI in August, Craig DeLeeuw Robertson, was After Trump was indicted for making death threats against the prosecutor, he was indicted in federal court. – and wrote on Facebook that he would be waiting for him “in the courthouse parking garage with my silenced Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm” – hours after Trump urged his supporters to “PROTEST AND TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”

When asked about the latest threats, spokespeople for the district attorney’s office and Bragg’s campaign office declined to comment, as did Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche. Trump’s campaign spokesman could not be reached. Representatives of the NYPD and FBI declined to comment on the authorities’ response to the wave of threats. A spokesman for the state courts administration declined to say whether Merchan had also been subjected to increased threats.

The accusation should develop her arguments against Trump’s demand to lift a news blackout He was prevented from making public comments to anyone involved in the trial, including the jury, the prosecution, court personnel and the families of anyone involved, including Merchan and Bragg.

Prosecutors may shed more light on the recovery following Trump’s guilty verdict in this week’s filings. When they requested the news blackout in FebruaryThey told the court that the NYPD’s Threat Assessment and Protection Unit identified 89 threats against the district attorney in 2023, compared to a single one he received before Trump’s impeachment.

“The number of threatening and terrorist mailings described above does not include the thousands of harassing, racist, and abusive emails, phone calls, and text messages related to the People v. Trump prosecution that were directed at the District Attorney, the Assistant District Attorneys assigned to that prosecution, and members of the Office’s senior staff,” prosecutors wrote in February.

The presumptive Republican nominee argued that the news blackout infringes on his free speech and that now that the trial is over, he can publicly attack witnesses who testified under subpoena in the trial, including his former fixers Michael Cohen and Daniels, as well as the jury. None of the jurors, whose identities were kept anonymous, have spoken since the verdict was announced.

Bragg and Merchan join the ranks of those involved in Trump’s other cases who have frequently faced his wrath, including the judge in his civil fraud case, Arthur Engoron, whose home was the target of false bomb threats. on the morning of the closing arguments in Januaryand his senior legal clerk Allison Greenfield, who bombarded with misogynistic and anti-Semitic insults after Trump falsely claimed that she was dating Senator Chuck Schumer (Democrat, Manhattan) and was part of a plot to bring him down.

A man from upstate New York was arrested in April for threatened to kill Judge and Attorney General Tish James if they did not drop the case against Trump.

When she testified against Trump in January, E. Jean Carroll, who supported Trump convicted of sexual abuse and defamation in May 2023The author said she was bombarded with threats from supporters of the former president after she went public with her allegations.

Carroll, 80, testified: She slept with a loaded gun and trained her pit bull to patrol the grounds of her home, hired private security and had to constantly check to see if she was being followed. Carroll’s attorney would not say whether she has also experienced an increase in threats.

The In total, Trump must pay more than $91 million to Carroll. for sexual abuse and defamation has not deterred him as he continues to claim that he does not know her and that she made up the assault.

Bragg, who declined to comment for this story, tried not to take the bait and claimed after the verdict that he had nothing to say about Trump’s constant attacks against him.

“These hateful and constant attempts to intimidate and harass Alvin are frightening,” said a source close to the prosecutor. “But I know that Alvin will not let this stop him from doing his job.”