"Consider: Over the last several days, Donald Trump has called for the execution of one of the nation’s top generals, threatened prosecutors, mocked the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s elderly husband, and endorsed more extra-judicial killings.
Thanks for this @Brandi_Buchman
I just read about a Texas man who was sentenced to 3 & 1/2 years for threatening Arizona election officials & THEIR KIDS!
It is important to tell the stories of arrests and punishment for these crimes NOW.
Threats are NOT protected speech. #ThreatsOfViolence #Threats
A #juror was quickly dismissed at the start. She was among the 7 already selected, she said she was very worried that despite the fact the court ruled to keep jurors’ name secret, she would still be exposed & targeted.
It’s probably safe to say that few, if any, judges have had to deal w/the array of #threats to #their trial that Justice #Merchan has had to. Besides #Trump himself, who constantly tests the boundaries of his #GagOrder, there are his allies who attacking the judge & his family & who aren’t covered by the gag order. Then there’s the #media who has been putting potentially identifying info about prospective #jurors on TV.
Deputy AG Lisa Monaco says Republican attacks on the Justice Dept. have contributed to an "unprecedented rise" in #threats against law enforcement and other officials.
Monaco tells ABC News those accusations "bear no resemblance to the Justice Dept. that I know. The Justice Dept. that I know is filled with dedicated men and women, investigators, lawyers, prosecutors, analysts, professional staff," adding that employees "get up every day without regard to who's in the White House." #DOJ
From Kaitlan Collins
Notable moment in court today where the judge told the defense he could hear Trump cursing:
Judge Merchan: "I understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly, and he is shaking his head visually and that's contemptuous...I am speaking to you here at the bench because I don't want to embarrass him."
When you hear of the death threats directed at Colorado's Supreme Court Justices did you ask, "Where is law enforcement?"
I learned from Reuters @LindaSoReports, they DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED. Why? Because they'd have to make decisions about what's protected "Political speech" & what is not. So they avoid it. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-threats-law-enforcement/ The failure to act on clear violations of defined terms gives the RW a massive club to continue to intimidate & threaten people with no consequences. #Threats
"My own opinion is that Hur took those political shots at Biden in order to cover for the fact that he had decided not to bring any charges. That decision likely would have made him a target for anger and even threats by MAGA had he just done his job and kept it professional."
Please hear this important information about the case corrupt #scotus#WhiteChristianNationalist pushing harms Women. Remember, our body, our choice.
The group challenging #mifepristone’s access has NO legal standing to bring their challenge. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine’s lawyer, Erin Hawley, was questioned on how & why the group was even before the court. Erin is pro-nazi fascist, insurrectionist Josh Hawley's wife.
"Colorado police are working with the FBI to investigate threats directed at justices of the state’s supreme court after its decision to remove Donald Trump from the presidential primary ballot."
Finally, the #PHSupremeCourt explicitly defined and explained what red-tagging is. Past decisions involving red-tagging cases did not give explicit definitions.
The decision publicized on Wednesday, May 8, said #RedTagging is the use of #threats and #intimidation to “discourage subversive activities,” adding that “whether such threats ripen into actual abduction or killing of supposed ‘reds’ is largely uncertain.” #Philippines#WritOfAmparo
Predicting the future is no big deal when you are a time traveler like me. I wrote this Feb 12, 2020
How GOP's Vicious Threats Help Them Avoid Justice
"The Right Wing Media will target prosecutors and witnesses to destroy their lives
'We don't have to tell the truth. The government can't stop us, it's against the 1st Amendment! We have an audience and will use it 24/7 to attack Democrats. We don't even need to be profitable anymore thanks to Dark Money!'"
"At least eight U.S. state houses had to evacuate today. According to Andy Rose of CNN, an emailed bomb threat was sent to state officers in 23 states. Law enforcement officers found no explosives and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has called the threats a hoax. It is not clear who was behind the threats."
"Before 2020, threats against election workers were virtually nonexistent, Beauchamp notes; now they are so frequent that 11% of election workers surveyed by the Brennan Center for Justice are 'very or somewhat likely' to leave their jobs before the 2024 election."
I tweeted to Lisa Rubin
"I'm worried that the information given about prospective jurors will make them easy for Trump supporters to find them & threaten them. Could you talk about how Law Enforcement prepares for them getting discovered & being threatened? Does it then become jury tampering?"
The threats from #Trump & #MAGA keep coming. Starting this week it will be directed at the jurors.
Local, state & fed law enforcement KNOW who the jurors are, they MUST be prepared for threats against them.
Their phones & social media accounts should be monitored NOW. There must be a coordinated response to find & arrest those making threats.
I predicted this 4/23 & what SHOULD be done. To NOT do so is a failure to protect them. #TrumpTrial#JurySelection#Threats
"In the 24 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court kicked former President Donald Trump off the state's Republican primary ballot, social media outlets have been flooded with threats against the justices who ruled in the case, according to a report obtained by NBC News. ...
As Ryan Reilly notes, the threats include violence-filled death threats speaking of beheading the Colorado justices, or using guns and bombs.
"Trump’s accelerating assaults on our security and on common decency represent a five-alarm fire. In such moments, first responders do not panic. They put on their fire coats and pants, hop on their trucks, and hose down the danger.
That’s our job now. No time for fear or succumbing to panic. Only time for steely gaze and firm commitment to combat the threat to our peace, our law, our order, and our freedom."
“#Kill judges. Behead #judges. Roundhouse #kick a judge into the concrete," read a #post on a fringe website. "Slam dunk a judge's #baby into the trashcan."
Republican former officials, leaders, & MOC are craven traitors who can’t take the heat, increasing the chance of democracy failing in 2024, while state SOS, AGs & judges (many are women), speak truth to power, get death threats. Call out the cowards, & amplify the work of American patriots exposing #TFG & #GOPTraitors: Sarah Mathews, a former Trump deputy press sec., explained that former officials in the Trump admin don’t speak out about #J6 bc they fear death threats. https://www.rawstory.com/sarah-matthews-threats/
Several state Capitols evacuated after bomb threats
The state Capitol complexes in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana and Michigan were evacuated Wednesday after bomb threats were made, officials said.
Russia threatens Ukraine’s ‘decision-making centres’ if Kyiv uses western arms in Crimea (www.theguardian.com)
Use of US- and UK-supplied missiles would mark west’s ‘full involvement’, Russian defence minister says