BTWs this was the post. So threatening! #Trump is a weakling.

#SecretService spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, in a statement, said, “The Secret Service vigorously investigates anything that can be taken as a potential threat against our protectees.”

“We are aware of the social media posts by the former FBI Director [#JamesComey] & we take rhetoric like this very seriously,” Guglielmi said.

“He knew exactly what that meant,” #Trump said in an interview w/ FauxNews, a day after the #DHS & the #SecretService opened an investigation into Comey’s Instagram post.

“A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director & you don’t know ... that meant ‘assassination,’” Trump said.

[BS I didn’t learn what 86 meant until I started waiting tables in HS]

They included #jurists appointed by both #Republican & #Democratic presidents. Most requested anonymity, citing the potential for further inflaming #security fears or raising questions about their impartiality. Additional information was gleaned from #legal records & interviews with half a dozen ofcls involved in #court security.

#Boasberg & #McConnell are among at least 11 federal #judges whose #families have faced threats of #violence or #harassment after they ruled against the new #Trump admin, a Reuters investigation found.

The broadsides are part of an #intimidation campaign directed at federal judges who have stood in the way of Trump’s moves to dramatically expand #PresidentialAuthority & slash the federal govt.

Neither #LauraLoomer nor #Musk mentioned the #Judge’s daughter had left her job before #Trump’s inauguration.

Loomer continued her attacks with 9 more posts in the ensuing days – & >600 calls & emails flooded #JohnMcConnell’s RI courthouse, including #DeathThreats & menacing messages taunting his #family, acc/to a court clerk & another person familiar w/the communications.

US District #Judge #JohnMcConnell’s family endured similar #threats after he ruled that #Trump overstepped his authority in freezing #grants for #education & other services. #FarRight provocateur #LauraLoomer [& apparent Trump advisor] tweeted a photo of the judge’s daughter, who had worked at the US Education Dept as a policy advisor, & accused McConnell of protecting her paycheck. #ElonMusk amplified the post to his 219 million followers.

When US District #Judge James #Boasberg ruled in April that #Trump admin officials could face #criminal #contempt charges for #deporting migrants in defiance of a #CourtOrder, the blowback was immediate.

Trump’s supporters unleashed a wave of #threats & menacing posts. And they didn’t just target the judge. Some attacked Boasberg’s brother. Others blasted his daughter. Some demanded the #family’s arrest – or #execution.

@Heinzel

#VorwahlenAttentate #RechtsPusch #StochasticTerrorism ???

Es wäre in der Tat eine Studie wert. Was geht ab in den einschlägigen Sozialen Medien eines gewissen Milieus...

@lauren

Mango Mussolini's long game of stochastic terrorism really has paid dividends.

Former Democratic presidents? Absent.

Retired Democratic senators (and most of the sitting ones...) ? Absent.

Similar for congresscritters? Absent.

Seriously, not a peep from Biden, Obama, the Clintons... or from (comparatively) principled Republicans, for that matter.

The #silence is #deafening. We can hear it from Canada.