Donald Trump’s MAGA Minions are absolutely incensed after their “king” was indicted for a 4th time last week. Now, they are seeking revenge and warning their presumed enemies to prepare for the worst.
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Spontaneous threats, racist attacks, and a 2nd conceivable coup have all been mentioned as potential acts that could be staged by Trump’s MAGA Minions. Although it’s easy to downplay the threats as improbable since they’re coming from a group that has proven its cowardice, officials warn that lone actors who’ve succumbed to the MAGA mentality are a much bigger threat than most realize.
Within the past few days, the FBI has joined the investigation into a series of threats against Fulton County officials and members of the Atlanta-area grand jury that voted to indict Trump and 18 of his allies.
According to The Washington Post, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has received a fair amount of credible death threats following the latest indictment against Trump. Additionally, MAGA Minions have threatened the safety of members of the grand jury after a strange Georgia state law permitted the publishing of their names, home addresses, photos, and social media profiles.
In what was supposed to be an effort to assure transparency and provide defendants the opportunity to challenge the composition of a grand jury, Georgia passed an absurd law permitting the identities of grand jurors to be made public. That law has since come to bite Georgians in the butt after MAGA minions published the list on conservative websites and called for Willis and the grand jury members to become targets of violence.
“It is our policy not to discuss details of ongoing investigations,” the FBI said in a statement. “However, each and every potential threat brought to our attention is taken seriously. Individuals found responsible for making threats in violation of state and/or federal laws will be prosecuted.”
Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat said investigators within the department have been “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,” he said.
“I can’t imagine there’s any value to publishing those names,” former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan said Thursday on CNN. “I think this speaks to the culture that Donald Trump has built. This culture of anger, right? And he’s just confused so many good-hearted Republicans and folks all across the country to think that conservatism means that you have to be angry and loud and visceral.”
Meanwhile, a Texas woman is behind bars after threatening to kill District Judge Tanya Chutkan for her role in the current District of Columbia case against Trump.
The 43-year-old Abigail Jo Shry, who is White, left a racially-tinged voicemail for the judge saying she intended to kill her.
“Hey, you stupid slave Nig*er. You are in our sights, we want to kill you, all Democrats in Washington D.C., and all people in the LGBTQ community,” Shry began. “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, B*tch. You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it.”
After being captured, Shry admitted to special agents from the Department of Homeland Security that she did, in fact, make the threatening phone call. However, she claimed she did not intend to follow through with her threat, but immediately added “If [Democratic Representative] Sheila Jackson Lee comes to Alvin [Texas], then we need to worry.”
As if that wasn’t enough, some political observers are now saying that America should totally expect Donald Trump to stage an 11th-hour violent coup in order to stay out of jail and/or return him to the Oval Office.
“My sources tell me that federal law enforcement is concerned about what will happen after Nov. 7, 2024, regardless of who wins, but much more so if Trump loses,” said Brynn Tannehill, author of the book American Fascism: How the GOP Is Subverting Democracy.
She bolstered her theory by mentioning that three-quarters of all terrorism in the US since 9/11 has come from right-wing sources, that MAGA Minions have been cultivated to greet the FBI and other law enforcement officials by brandishing a gun (as a Utah man recently did after threatening President Biden, but was shot and killed by the FBI), and that GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida stood by Trump’s side last week and said: “The only path to meaningful change is violence.”
“Trump himself will do anything to stay out of prison, which is looking more and more likely if he doesn’t win in 2024,” Tannehill said. “He will absolutely attempt to incite violence again if he thinks his next stop is prison. What’s he got to lose at that point? If he doesn’t stage a coup, he’s in prison for the rest of his life. If his coup fails, he’s in prison for the rest of his life. If it succeeds, he’s safe as long as he hangs on.
“For Trump, there’s literally no downside to encouraging violence if he loses, and his followers are getting the message, just like the guy in Utah.”
Granted, it’s easy to dismiss the potential of the MAGA movement as a whole to create discourse should Trump go to jail or lose the 2024 election. However, officials warn that because threats against judges, prosecutors, and grand jury members have escalated, we’d all be foolish not to believe that 1, 2, or 10 MAGA Minions might just attempt to pull off the unthinkable and follow through with some sick threat.
Keep your eyes open and stay tuned…
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Trump’s MAGA Minions threaten violence (again).
NPR:
Before many people had a chance to fully read through the Fulton County, Ga., indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, malicious online actors had already done their work.
On a far-right website, where the QAnon conspiracy theory originated, an anonymous user on Tuesday shared a list of the 23 grand jurors with their supposed full names, ages and addresses. Amid a torrent of other posts speculating on the race and religion of the jurors, and rife with derogatory slurs, the implication was clear: This was a target list.
In Georgia — unlike in federal cases, for example — it is standard practice to list the names of grand jurors in indictments. But given the high profile nature of this case and an increasing appetite among Americans for political violence, some are wondering whether more might have been done to safeguard jurors’ privacy.