Donald Trump is directly responsible for the harassment of officials involved in his multiple criminal and civil cases, Obama-era acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said Tuesday.
Amid a recent uptick in threats, bomb hoaxes and fake swatting reports, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki asked Katyal if the harassment would be taking place “if not for” the Republican 2024 front-runner’s divisive comments.
“There’s no question in mind [it] wouldn’t,” Katyal replied.
“Judges, prosecutors, witnesses, court officials, they shouldn’t need round-the-clock protection and it’s defendant Trump’s hateful and dishonest rhetoric that’s fueling these kind of threats,” he added.
Katyal suggested Trump could “put an end to all this with a single social media post.”
“The public knows it, officials know it, Trump knows it,” he added. But Trump is “making a deliberate decision to stay quiet about these threats and stir it up and then pretend, ‘Oh, who me? I had nothing to do with it.’”
He added, “It’s preposterous and horrible.”
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