'Be looking over your shoulder': Trump supporter admits phoning threats to Fani Willis
An Alabama man reportedly pleaded guilty to sending threatening phone calls to Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor Fani Willis over her prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
Arthur Ray Hanson II, a 58-year-old insurance salesman from Huntsville, told federal magistrate judge Regina Cannon, “I made a stupid phone call. I’m not a violent person," reported Ashley Quincin for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He went on to say: "I didn’t knowingly know I was threatening anybody" and realized what he'd done when FBI agents showed up at his house. He said he acted out of anger in the moment, and “I’m not a law breaker. I just lost it.”
He will face sentencing at a later hearing.
The threats Hanson left on voicemails were first reported in October.
“I would be very afraid if I were you because you can’t be around people all the time that are going to protect you; there’s going to be moments when you’re going to be vulnerable,” said Hanson in his message to Willis. “When you charge Trump on that fourth indictment, anytime you’re alone, be looking over your shoulder.”
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Hanson also left a threatening message to Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat, who arrested and processed Trump and his co-defendants in the case: “If you think you gonna take a mugshot of my President Donald Trump and it’s gonna be ok, you gonna find out that after you take that mugshot, some bad (expletive)’s probably gonna happen to you ... I’m warning you right now before you (expletive) up your life and get hurt real bad.”
Trump, along with several of his legal advisers and local GOP strategists in Georgia, were charged with running a racketeering scheme to prevent certification of the election. That case is currently on hold and unlikely to go to trial before the November election, as an appeals court is reviewing the decision by lower court judge Scott McAfee to allow Willis to continue prosecuting the case amid ethics complaints over her romantic involvement with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade.