Trump Tells Judge That Court Clerk 'Allowed Herself' To Be Abused

Spoken like a true predator, Donald Trump claimed that the court clerk in Judge Arthur Engoron's court had "allowed herself" to be the target of abuse. His lawyers argued in a filing that by "allowing herself" to be videotaped and photographed by the media, she apparently brought all this hate upon herself. If this is the best argument they have, then they'd better be ready to get that gag order slapped back on them, as Farron Cousins explains.

Listen to our videos in an audio format by subscribing to our podcast

Don't forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected!

Connect with Farron on Twitter

*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos.

In a court filing this week, Donald Trump's lawyers, while trying to argue that he does not need a gag order against him, basically blamed the court clerk working for Judge Arthur Geron for people abusing her and threatening her. They literally said, and they're filing that it's her fault that she is receiving all of the threats from the angry MAGA folks because she, quote, allowed herself to be abused. Here is what they said. Greenfield, uh, the woman's name allowed herself to be voluntarily photographed, videotaped, and identified by name in the national and international media, despite the prior existence of purported security concerns. Additionally, the purported security concerns are disingenuous, uh, disingenuous given the principle law clerk's voluntary public partisan posts and political activities, and her insistence in remaining as a constant and unprecedented presence on the bench, allowing herself to be filmed and then viewed by an audience of millions since the underlying extraordinarily high profile trial commenced.

Now, let's get a couple things straight here. This woman is not just hanging out by the judge's bench because, eh, it's cool, right? I'm just afraid next to the judge. Ah, look at him. No, she, she goes back and forth because that's literally her job. That's what she has to do. She's not doing it for fun. She's doing it because that is her job. She was identified by the, by the media, wonderful. That that doesn't mean anything. She's a woman that works for the court system and in photographs that media outlets took of her doing her job, right? She didn't just say like, Hey, come get a picture with me and Arthur. Awesome, thanks, judge. That's not what happened. She was doing her job that she gets paid to do, and the media took photographs of her and identified her in the photographs. That's what the media has to do in order to be able to use those photographs.

Oh, no, she's got posts online. Yeah, that's freedom of speech, baby. That's what happens. You, on the other hand, your client is the one who attacked her, spread vicious rumors about her of somehow being Chuck Schumer's girlfriend. That was the initial, uh, by the way, attack from the right on this woman. So y'all created that. You created this sense that somehow this woman was doing something wrong, and now you're blaming her. I mean, my God, spoken like a true sexual predator, right? Well, if she didn't want to be harassed, maybe she shouldn't address that way. That's how I read this. Like that is how this legal filing comes across to me,

Like, Hey, it's not our fault, judge. Did you see her? She brought this on herself. Scumbag pigs. That is probably the best way I can describe these lawyers for putting that in this filing. She allowed herself to be abused, allowed herself. She was doing her job. Again, she's not doing this for fun. She's not doing this for notoriety. She did not volunteer to be photographed. Everything these lawyers have put in this filing is absolutely wrong. It's absolutely wrong. This gag order needs to be put back. Uh, this woman, by the way, has also been doxxed almost daily. Different details about her, her private personal life, including her personal cell phone number, have been released by these angry Trump people. Uh, there's 25 pages of transcribed threat, uh, transcribed threats that this woman has received. She, she didn't open her cell up for that. She didn't allow herself to have her life threatened, but Trump's lawyers are so disgusting that they're trying to blame her for what their client did.