Trump Inspires His Political Supporters To Threaten Judges' Lives
Death threats against the judges handling Trump’s cases are on the rise. Wonder why…
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Trump is constantly riling up his supporters to be angry on his behalf. He takes that large group of angry people, he points them in a particular direction, and then the judges get all these death threats.
— Lilliana Mason, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University, in comments given to Reuters on the rise in threatening online posts directed at the judges handling high-profile cases against former president Donald Trump. Mitch Silber, a former New York City Police Department director of intelligence analysis, compared the Trump supporters threatening judges to the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, saying, “This is just the 2023-2024 iteration of that phenomenon. Articulating these ideas is the first step along the pathway of mobilizing to violence.”
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on X/Twitter and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.
