Trump jury members hit with threats after addresses & information posted online
Members of the Georgia grand jury that indicted Donald Trump earlier this week have been hit with threats after their names and addresses were posted online.
The names were posted on a website known to feature some extreme rhetoric and it comes after the former president was indicted on charges of allegedly meddling with the presidential election in 2020.
A post on a pro-Trump forum said grand jurors who indicted Trump had signed a "death warrant."
The names of the jurors were listed in the indictment, but their addresses were not. The addresses were spotted online by a nonpartisan research group, 'Advance Democracy,' founded by former FBI investigator Daniel J Jones.
"It’s becoming all too commonplace to see everyday citizens performing necessary functions for our democracy being targeted with violent threats by Trump-supporting extremists," Jones, who was also once a staffer for the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, said to NBC. "The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence — is shameful."
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis warned staff against commenting on racist abuse she received (Getty Images)The names of the grand jurors were also posted on social media sites with additional information claiming they had made their support for the likes of Senator Sanders, former President Barack Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement, known. Sanders, Obama and BLM are all known to have been subjected to hate from the extreme right.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Offices said it is "aware that personal information of members of the Fulton County Grand Jury is being shared on various platforms." The police department is also responsible for handling the booking of Trump and his co-defendants.
A statement said: "As the lead agency, our investigators are working closely with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to track down the origin of threats in Fulton County and other jurisdictions. We take this matter very seriously and are coordinating with our law enforcement partners to respond quickly to any credible threat and to ensure the safety of those individuals who carried out their civic duty."
The 45th president was indicted along with 18 of his allies in an indictment that includes 41 different charges for the defendants. A total of 13 charges alone are against Trump, claiming he and his co-defendants were part of a "criminal organization" engaged in an "enterprise" that operated in Georgia and other states.
Trump is due to be booked later this month (Getty Images)Trump, meanwhile, denies all charges against him and prosecutors were going authorities were going "after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!" Advance Democracy said the word 'rigger' was now being used instead of a common racial slur in posts on certain websites
The former president, 77, has said a report released next week will categorically prove there is evidence of election fraud. There has never been any credible evidence the 2020 election was stolen.
Trump has accused Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of being "a young woman, a young racist in Atlanta." Ms Willis, 52 and black, told staff in an email not to respond to Trump's public attack on her.
“You may not comment in any way on the ad or any of the negativity that may be expressed against me, your colleagues, this office in coming days, weeks or months,” she wrote. “We have no personal feelings against those we investigate or prosecute and we should not express any. This is business, it will never be personal.”
An email to commissioners by Willis said she had been subjected to racist comments and threats. One called her the so-called 'n-word' and a "Jim Crow Democrat whore," in reference to the racist segregation rules dubbed the 'Jim Crow' laws that once plagued the American South. The Georgia indictment is the fourth set of criminal charges brought against Trump this year. There are 91 charges in total.
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In Washington DC Trump has pleaded not guilty to: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights in Washington DC.
It is in the American capital that the case against Trump will be overseen by US District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Court records show that a Texas woman was arrested and has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in Washington and left a threatening message. She admitted to the incident when investigators tracked down her phone number.
In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the election conspiracy case against Trump, “You are in our sights, we want to kill you," the documents said. Prosecutors allege Shry also said, “If Trump doesn't get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you," and she threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat running for mayor of Houston, according to court documents.
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