Threats of violence against Trump judge and grand jurors

Donald Trump is on Truth Social most days of the week attacking the judges and prosecutors overseeing his various criminal indictments, and his followers are taking notice—threatening, racist, and already at times, criminal notice. A Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, the judge in the federal case charging Trump with crimes related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, left Chutkan a voicemail opening with a double-barreled racist insult and going on to threaten, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, bitch,” according to the charging document. Shry went on to say, “You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it.” She additionally threatened, in the voicemail, to kill Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, all Democrats in Washington, and all LGBTQ+ people. When the FBI knocked on her door, she admitted to having made the call. She wasn’t planning to go to Washington, D.C., to actually kill anyone, she told the FBI agent, but “if Sheila Jackson Lee comes to Alvin, then we need to worry,” the agent reported her saying. That doesn’t seem like the kind of thing you want to tell the FBI when they’re asking about death threats you’ve made against federal officials.