The names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury in Georgia that indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others have allegedly been posted online, opening the members to harassment, a news report revealed Wednesday.
The assumed addresses were noted by the non-partisan research group Advance Democracy, Inc., which was founded by former FBI investigator and Senate Intelligence Committee staffer Daniel Jones. The list and photographs of alleged members of the grand jury have also circulated on social media.
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“It’s becoming all too commonplace to see everyday citizens performing necessary functions for our democracy being targeted with violent threats by Trump-supporting extremists,” Jones told NBC News. “The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats, which serve to inspire real-world political violence, is shameful.”
The grand jurors have been slammed online for the decision to indict Trump on Monday along with his former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump’s lawyers, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, for alleged violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The charges concern their alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Some of the online posts have claimed that the jurors were biased against Trump because of alleged social media posts from the jurors that supported Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA), former President Barack Obama, and the Black Lives Matter movement. The Washington Examiner has not independently verified whether any of the jurors have publicly shared their political beliefs online.
The release of someone’s name and address, as well as other identifiable and personal information, on social media can be considered doxxing and is usually done with malicious intent. Doxxing is not considered illegal if the information is publicly available and posting is done through legal means, but it can cross the line into stalking and harassment.
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The grand jurors are not the only ones who have faced online attacks for indicting Trump for the fifth time since he left office in his fourth criminal case. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and other county commissioners also received racist threats before the indictment. Additional security measures were put in place as a result, including allowing some staffers to work from home.
Trump has maintained his innocence throughout the indictments and has predicted that the Georgia charges will be dropped next week after he releases a “detailed” report on the alleged voter fraud in the state during the 2020 election next Monday.
