‘How Do You Feel About Barron Being Threatened Don?’ NBC’s Frank Figliuzzi Goes Off On Trump Over Gag Order

NBC News National Security Contributor Frank Figliuzzi told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah that former President Donald Trump doesn’t have the “decency” to think about how it would feel if his own children were threatened.

On Monday evening, Judge Juan Merchan issued a ruling that expanded an existing gag order prohibiting Trump from attacking court staff, prosecutors, and witnesses. The new ruling also forbids attacks on Merchan’s own family, and that of District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Just before that ruling, Figliuzzi discussed the motion on Monday’s edition of The Dean Obeidallah Show, and brought up the prospect of former First Son Barron Trump facing the kinds of attacks Trump levels at the families of his opponents:

DEAN OBEIDALLAH: Frank, on that very point, staying on the on the April 15th election fraud hush money case. So there was a limited gag order imposed on Donald Trump, and then Donald Trump, after that, then begins posting attacks of Judge Merchan, on the judge presiding’s daughter by name, and even sharing a link with a picture of her.

And, you know, Alvin Bragg’s office just asked on Friday for an extension of the gag order to include families of the judge, families of the DA, families of witnesses, and–just take a step back. The idea that you have to protect the families from the defendant and the defendant’s allies, even in mob trials. Was that a concern?

FRANK FIGLIUZZI: Yeah. Oh, my! Yeah! I’ve seen it myself in my own FBI career. Family members threatened. Even in one case, killed.

DEAN OBEIDALLAH: Wow!

FRANK FIGLIUZZI: You, you — this is a legit concern. And I don’t know what human decency is left in our society anymore, but the idea of attacking a judge’s daughter just because she’s the judge’s daughter, or even even let’s assume whatever he’s got in his head about her political affiliation or whatever. What? What’s the point of that? What, what is the point of that?

And if you turn the tables around, if you’re a decent human being and you say “Would I want, my kid attacked publicly in this environment, violent threat environment we’re in?”.

How do you feel about Ivanka or Barron? How about Barron being threatened? How do you feel about that, Don? You know, we’re in a realm where civility and decency has long been thrown out the window. So I think it’s a no-brainer, Dean, that the judge will extend the, the gag order and to include everybody’s family members.

Watch the clip above, via SiriusXM.