2023-08-17 20:59:00
Judge Tanya Chutkan, charged with overseeing the federal trial against Trump; and Abigail Jo Shry, the Texas woman arrested for threatening to kill her Reuters
Abigail Jo Shry was brought before the court on Wednesday after insulting and threatening Judge Tanya Chutkan on the phone.
17 ago 2023 . Updated at 10:12 p.m.
A Texas woman has been arrested and charged with threatening the Judge Tanya Chutkan charged with overseeing the federal trial against Donald Trump for his attempts to stay in power in 2020. Abigail Jo Shri he was brought before the court on wednesday after insulting and threatening the judge by telephone. Shry would have left a voice message on the answering machine in Chutkan’s office on August 5.
In that message, he hurled racist insults at her (called her stupid black slave) and threatened to kill her if Trump is not elected in 2024. According to the complaint filed, he also threatened to kill the Texan congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and to the other Washington Democrats, as well as the LGBT community.
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After being identified by the Department of Homeland Security, the defendant acknowledged the facts although she stated that she had no intention of traveling to Washington or committing any attack. In order to guarantee the safety of those threatened by Shry, a federal judge for the southern district of Texas ordered his arrest without bail Wednesday.
The arrest has come at a time of special tension, since Trump has been charged in up to four different criminal cases. The former president is also in the middle of an electoral campaign in which he is betting on discrediting the judiciary and trying to convince that there is a crusade against him. Chutkan herself warned Donald Trump last week during a face-to-face hearing of the trial that he must refrain to make comments that could intimidate witnesses or manipulate the jury.
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But Trump continues without lowering the tone of his speech. In addition to having attacked Chutkan several times through social networks, which he accuses of conspiring against him, the tycoon wrote in early August that I will go against everyone who goes against me.
Shry’s arrest is the latest example of the consequences of the retreat of the Republican candidate for the White House. It is not the first time that a follower of the former president commits violent actions in the face of the millionaire’s problems with justice. Last summer, after the FBI entered Mar-a-Lago to investigate classified documents, a man was shot and killed by police after try to break into FBI headquarters in Cincinnati.
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