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In the call, Ms Shry allegedly told the judge, who is overseeing an election conspiracy case against Mr Trump: “You are in our sights, we want to kill you.”
Prosecutors say Ms Shry added: “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you.”
The caller also threatened all Democrats in Washington DC and the LGBT community, according to the court filing.
She allegedly also threatened to kill congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a black Texas Democrat who is running for mayor of Houston.
When federal agents visited Ms Shry’s home in the Houston suburb of Alvin three days later she said she had harboured no intention of going to Washington DC to carry out her threats, according to the court filing. But she allegedly added that “if Sheila Jackson Lee comes to Alvin, then we need to worry”.
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I do worry about the day of the 2024 election certification if Trump loses.
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He’s gotta get the nomination first…if he doesn’t end up being found guilty of breaking the 14th Amendment. Then we end up…well, from one frying pan into a different frying pan, to paraphrase Sister Michael of “Derry Girls”.
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If some states put him on the ballot, and others don’t, that spoils arguments about the popular vote.
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Trump’s cancellation of his Monday press conference where he was going to release irrefutable evidence that the Georgia election in 2020 was rigged has almost everyone on r/conservative on reddit acting like they’ve never supported Trump. They’re even calling him a conman. I have no idea if that’s going to just be a reddit phenomenon, but it’s pretty funny.
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Does anyone else think Trump is looking thin, less orange and haggard lately?
I would post an example but I’m trying to keep my lunch down.
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Waiting for the “THEY got to him!” theories
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Well that’s what I’m saying. On reddit, at least, the reaction has been “That’s it, I’m done,” rather than more conspiracy theories.
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The funniest part of it is that, in this case, it’s entirely possible that “they” got to him… if by “they” you count his lawyers who were probably having conniptions over him digging the hole even deeper.
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Yeah it’d be interesting to know what caused him to suddenly decide to follow his lawyers’ advice. I think the indictments in Georgia have him actually scared in a way the other cases haven’t. I’m not sure why, but he seems to be reacting differently.
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He thinks that all the billionaires who are determined to ratfuck the process will probably get a pardon for his legacy of entitled and traumatized kids. He feels mortality for sure.
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Not surprised to see the rats abandoning the sinking shit.
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… it’s always Jan. 6, every four years, so 1/6/25
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the day of the next election certification?
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we can only hope
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The ex-president said one latest poll showed he had “legendary” numbers ahead of other hopefuls to be the party’s nominee for the 2024 election. “The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had,” Mr Trump, 77, wrote in a post on social media.
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I think we should want a little more definitive declaration that a candidate is ineligible under the 14th Amendment that what that article suggests. What they’re saying is that whoever is responsible for certifying a candidate’s eligibility in each state (typically the Secretary of State) could just look at all the evidence of Trump’s complicity and unilaterally decide that Trump is ineligible. Why do I say we should want something more? Because if that becomes the standard, what’s to stop the Texas Secretary of State from declaring that Biden is ineligible because he essentially has participated in insurrection by doing nothing to stop the invasion of the US by people coming across the southern border? Is that ridiculous? Yes, but the standard advocated in that article would allow it to happen. And then the lawsuits would start. Trump would sue the states that declared him ineligible, Biden would sue the states that declared him ineligible, and it would turn into a big chaotic mess. It just sounds like a bad idea. It would be better to have some declaration from an adjudicative body (like a jury convicting him in Georgia) and hang the ineligibility on that. Trump would still sue, but I think it would make it much harder for other states to declare Biden ineligible because he hasn’t been convicted of anything.
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