MIAMI (JTA) – Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Tuesday, has been hit with a wave of antisemitic threats online.
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The outburst has appeared on right-wing social media platforms and message boards, where users have published the judge’s name, address and personal information. Threats have been directed at his children and supposed family members as well.
Reinhart, who appears to be a member of the board of Temple Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens, has been a magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2018.
Calls for violence have accompanied antisemitic slurs and conspiracy theories, many referencing how Reinhart represented former employees of Jeffrey Epstein during a case involving the late convicted sex trafficker in 2008. Prior to the Epstein case, Reinhart worked as a federal prosecutor and then in a private practice until 2018.
One user on 4chan, an online message board known for racist activity, wrote: “About that Judge that signed the search Warrant…Bruce Reinhart once quit his job as a U.S. Attorney to work for Jeffrey Epstein.” Another responded writing, “That is a k***. And a pedophile … He should be tried for treason and executed.”
“I see a rope around his neck,” wrote a user on the separate pro-Trump message board formerly called TheDonald, according to Vice News.
The Mar-a-Lago raid concerned confidential documents that Trump allegedly removed from the White House when he left in 2021. Subsequent right-wing outrage from many of his supporters has included calls for civil war and abolishment of the FBI and IRS.
Corrupt FBI & IRS should be abolished , and if we vote right they will. These 2 are the violent ones with their tactics and goonism.
They always claimed that anyone who said anything anti-Soros is an antisemite. Is this clown the new Soros?
I have to wonder how anyone knows who is writing those comments on those boards. Maybe Democrats are writing them to frame Republicans.
Be aware that some here are falsely claiming that Trump appointed him. They’re regurgitation a lie from a hard left blog ” The Other 98% .”
So to do it to Supreme Court judges it’s fine but to do it to the left you are anti Semitic, racist, Islamophobia
Humanity breakers
Soroh must go
Fib
What kind of people make statements like: “That is a k***. And a pedophile … He should be tried for treason and executed.”
“I see a rope around his neck,”
Sadly, some supporters are also antisemitic which Trump stands up against. The far right can be as crazy as the far left.
Goo Goo Ga Ga. Let me rephrase that: Goo Goo Goo Ga Ga Ga. I don’t want to be misquoted on this holy site: “Goo Goo Ga Ga” is not equivalent to “Goo Goo Goo Ga Ga Ga.” There is a difference, but it escapes me.
the article makes clear the sad fact, that some ardent Trump supporters are virulent anti-Semites
Deal with it, admit it, these are the facts.
How do so many people here know that the raid was unjustified? If prosecutors have evidence that Mr. Trump broke federal law, should the FBI ignore it?
Let’s wait & see why this was done & what they found & then offer an opinion.
True, the Democrats hate him but that doesn’t make it our job to be dan lekaf zechus Mr. Trump. Let’s keep neutral about this story until the facts come out, which they will.
<em>Reinhart represented former employees of Jeffrey Epstein</em> This was reinhart’s sick way of commemorating 3rd Johrzeit of Jeffrey Epstein HY’D this past week:- on Shabbos Tisho b’Ov
Good! He deserves it. (Dumb) actions, have consequences.