A California man is accused of sending death threats to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is in charge of the Georgia prosecution of Donald Trump for his purported attempts to rig the state’s 2020 election results.
According to the US attorney’s office for the northern district of Georgia, the individual, Marc Schultz, made many comments beneath two different YouTube live streams, one of which said that Willis “will be killed like a dog.”
Prosecutors said that he was charged with sending threats to harm Willis over state lines as a result of her legal action against the former president.
It was uncertain exactly what was going on when Shultz made his threats on Friday. However, Trump’s dog comment, which coincided with a stepped-up attack on prosecutors, was eerily similar to words he had previously used to characterize a murder.
Following a US special forces operation in Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the erstwhile Islamic State terrorist group, passed away. Trump described his death as “like a dog,” making the announcement on television from the White House.
Following the filing of charges against Trump and eighteen co-defendants by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office last year for plotting to break state racketeering laws in an attempt to overturn the former president’s election defeat in 2020, Willis faced a sharp rise in threats.
The Fulton County case has been without a trial date for weeks due to distractions caused by Trump and his co-defendants. They have been trying in vain to have Willis removed from the case because she had an affair with her deputy, Nathan Wade. Since then, Wade has left the case.
Trump has a lengthy history of publicly disparaging his legal troubles as being politically motivated, and he has attacked judges, prosecutors, and possible trial witnesses in the many criminal proceedings against him.
The first Black woman to occupy the position, Willis, had been the object of Shultz’s harassment at the same time as Trump had been complaining for weeks on his Truth Social platform that Willis was racist and “out to get Trump.”
When the judge supervising that case imposed a gag order restricting his abuse, the ongoing attacks on trial participants culminated in the federal criminal prosecution due to his attempts to thwart the transfer of power following the 2020 election.
Weeks after the judge herself got death threats from a Trump supporter, Tanya Chutkan, the presiding US district court in that case in Washington, barred Trump from harassing trial participants if his social media remarks compromised the integrity of the case.
Although Trump has never been charged for specifically encouraging violence against prosecutors, his followers have frequently used violent or provocative language in response to actions taken against him by criminal justice system authorities.
After FBI officials descended upon his Mar-a-Lago club last summer in order to carry out a search warrant and retrieve secret papers, an irate Ohio guy brandishing an armada attempted to break into the bureau’s field office close to Cincinnati. Later on, the man was shot and killed by police.
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