Friday, August 18, 2023

So, he does understand SOMEthing

The former president on Thursday said he was cancelling a scheduled press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf course that was scheduled for 21 August, on the advice of his attorneys. Trump announced the press conference after the release of the indictment, saying he would provide new “evidence” for his widely debunked claims that election fraud cost him victory in Georgia, and ultimately nationally.

  Guardian
Not to mention, he has no such evidence, other than the already debunked bullshit they've been spouting all along.

He needs a little advice on riling up his minions.
The Fulton county sheriff’s office announced that it was “aware that personal information of members of the Fulton county grand jury is being shared on various platforms” and was working to track down the origins of the threats in Fulton county, where Atlanta is located, and other jurisdictions.

[...]

Media Matters, a left-leaning non-profit that tracks conservative media, reported that the names, addresses, social media accounts and other information of the jurors were posted on far-right message boards, a practice known as “doxxing”.

The organization said that users on a message board known to be a hotbed of QAnon conspiracy theorists referred to the list of jurors as a “hitlist”. Another user said they would “follow these people home and photograph their faces”. Another replied, “Based. Godspeed anons, you have all the long range rifles in the world.”

Users on another pro-Trump forum said the jurors “have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump.”

[...]

Advance Democracy, a non-profit research organization that is also tracking social media posts against the jurors, said it was finding similar posts elsewhere on the internet, including on a fringe website that promotes violence. The organization told the Reuters news agency that it also found posts that included information about two NBC reporters who wrote about threats against the jurors, along with posts against the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis.

Willis, who is Black, has faced a wave of racist abuse online including from Trump.

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In Georgia, it is standard practice to include the names of grand jurors in an indictment, though most federal and state court systems redact the names of jurors in public records. Releasing names is meant to, in part, provide defendants a chance to challenge the composition of a jury.

A lawyer told the Associated Press agency that a prosecutor in Georgia would need to get special permission from a judge to redact the names of jurors in an indictment. The Georgia supreme court in the past has said indictments that do not include the names of grand jurors are “defective”.

[...]

This week, a Texas woman was arrested and charged with threatening to kill Tanya Chutkan, the federal judge overseeing the criminal election interference case against Trump in Washington DC related to the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 03:56 pm:


Bingo.

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