Judges in Trump cases have received more than 150 physical threats since March, according to a Reuters special report filed on Tuesday.
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“The comments fueled widespread calls for violence. Reuters reviewed posts by commenters on three pro-Trump websites, including the former president’s own Truth social platform, documenting the comments since March 1 More than 150 posts since the beginning of the day have called for physical violence against three of his most senior judges, two state judges and a Georgia judge overseeing a criminal case Trump is accused of illegally seeking to overturn. The state’s 2020 election results”.
“When Donald Trump attacks the impartiality of judges hearing cases against him, his followers often respond with posts urging the judges to be beaten, tortured and killed,” they wrote after reviewing three pro-Trump websites.
“Trump’s April 23 post and the threatening responses from his followers illustrate the incendiary impact of his angry and ongoing onslaught against the judges handling the criminal and civil lawsuits against him. As the President The campaign has intensified with Trump baselessly casting the judges and prosecutors involved in his trial as corrupt stooges of the Biden administration bent on derailing his bid for the White House.
Not surprisingly, the man who incited a deadly insurrection against his own country also incited physical threats against the judges in three of his high-profile cases, two in Manhattan and one in Georgia.
In fact, Reuters spoke to Mitch Silber, the New York City Police Department’s former director of intelligence analysis, who compared Trump supporters calling for violence against judges today to those who follow what they see as Trump’s 1 /6 Rebels compared.
“This is just a repeat of that phenomenon in 2023-2024,” Silber said. “Articulating these ideas is the first step on the road to mobilizing violence.”
This is one reason why calls for violence and language that supports violence should not be tolerated by responsible social media platforms.
The Reuters report mentioned that these personal threats were woven into “hundreds of people identified by Reuters who used hostile, threatening and, in some cases, racist or sexual language to attack judges.”
It’s not surprising that some people who use racist and sexist language can be radicalized into violence. In fact, “other” people have long been a way for elites like Donald Trump to get the masses to ignore what he’s not doing for them and instead be willing to ruin their own lives from time to time to serve him.
While many lawyers and experts disagree that the guardrails are not taking hold, this special report from Reuters further demonstrates that the U.S. justice system is biased against wealthy white men. No poor white or black person can escape the constant attacks on judges, witnesses, juries, etc. The fact that Donald Trump is still able to incite his followers is dangerous to everyone in America except those who tell us how much faith they have in the American justice system.
The system has failed to hold Republican former presidents accountable. The application of the law is not fair and does not even reflect equality to some extent.
Donald Trump operates like a mob boss, using intimidation and threats to achieve his goals. His followers intuitively understood what he was asking them to do on his behalf, and some of them acted on it. In politics, we call the use of violence or the threat of violence to achieve political goals terrorism.
Director Ray calls 1/6 domestic terrorism.
The MAGA movement sometimes operates like a terrorist organization, and tolerating this behavior is not how we sustain our democracy. For every pundit who says the legal system shouldn’t go after Trump because he should be defeated at the ballot box: Trump has already been defeated at the ballot box in 2020. election results.
The legal system needs to step up to hold Trump accountable for inciting his followers.
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