Since four criminal cases have been brought against former President Donald Trump, there have been a series of threats to public officials.
The U.S. Marshals Service says that threats against federal judges have spiked 400% in the past six years, to more than 3,700 in 2022. Threats to FBI agents and Justice Department officials have increased significantly since the raid at Mar-a-Lago, where hundreds of classified documents were discovered in Trump’s possession.
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There have been several recent threats to prosecutors and judges involved in the two state cases and two federal cases Trump has been indicted in. While not all threats are directly due to the indictments, here are a few notable ones that have occurred since the first indictment in April.
Alvin Bragg
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Trump in March with falsifying business records related to hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign.
Trump said on social media before the indictment that charges against him could usher in “potential death and destruction.” Later that day, Bragg received a death threat and white powder (determined not to be lethal), with a note saying, “ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The former president told reporters later, “I don’t like violence, and I’m not for violence.”
Craig Deleeuw Robertson of Utah also made threats to Bragg, calling him a political hack and detailing a plot to ambush him in a parking garage.
“I’ll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected,” Robertson said, according to the charging documents. “I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!”
Letitia James
New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is pursuing a civil suit against the former president, has reported receiving death threats. She said in June that she has “more law enforcement around me these days” due to people that have “threatened my life.”
Fani Willis
In Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis said she and grand jurors who brought the indictment against Trump have received threats. Names and addresses of grand jurors were reportedly circulating on social media.
Members of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office also reported receiving threats ahead of Trump’s surrender.
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Judge Tanya Chutkan
Federal investigators said in a criminal complaint filed last week that Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, left a voicemail on Aug. 5 threatening to kill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). Shry has been arrested for similar conduct in the past and convicted at least twice.
Chutkan is overseeing Trump’s indictment on charges stemming from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
