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babylonsister

(171,091 posts)
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 11:47 AM Jan 2022

Fulton County Asks Feds for Help After Trump Demands 'Biggest Protest' Over 2020 Investigation

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fulton-county-asks-fbi-for-help-after-trump-demands-biggest-protest-over-2020-investigation?ref=home

Fulton County Asks Feds for Help After Trump Demands ‘Biggest Protest’ Over 2020 Investigation
CROWD CONTROL
Jamie Ross
News Correspondent
Published Jan. 31, 2022 9:05AM ET


Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, are feeling under such a threat from Donald Trump and his supporters that the district attorney has reportedly felt the need to call in the FBI to help keep them protected. At a rally in Texas on Saturday night, Trump ordered his supporters to hold “the biggest protests we have ever had” in cities such as Atlanta if the prosecutors who are investigating his efforts to overturn the 2020 election “do anything wrong or illegal.” Fulton County DA Fani Willis is carrying out one of those investigations, and CNN reports that she’s asked the FBI to conduct a risk assessment of buildings near her office and the courthouse where a special grand jury will be seated as part of the county’s Trump investigation in May. According to CNN, Willis wrote in a letter that “security concerns were escalated this weekend” by Trump’s incendiary speech in Texas. The FBI field office in Atlanta didn’t comment on CNN’s report.
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Fulton County Asks Feds for Help After Trump Demands 'Biggest Protest' Over 2020 Investigation (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2022 OP
It appears.... FarPoint Jan 2022 #1
Not "such as Atlanta" he said Atlanta. Nevilledog Jan 2022 #2
Protective Custody wyn borkins Jan 2022 #3
Where the hell is the DOJ... BlueJac Jan 2022 #4

FarPoint

(12,437 posts)
1. It appears....
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 11:53 AM
Jan 2022

tRUMP is baiting for a fight and I say...figure out a way not to give it too him....Lock down Fulton County that day????

Nevilledog

(51,197 posts)
2. Not "such as Atlanta" he said Atlanta.
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 11:57 AM
Jan 2022

There's a reason for that.....trying to defeat the criminal investigation.

Same with New York.

wyn borkins

(1,109 posts)
3. Protective Custody
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 12:01 PM
Jan 2022

Perhaps the Secret Service should take IQ45 into protective custody and store it(him) in some out-of-the-way location (maybe even, GITMO) so as his spewage (anything and everything he states) would not endanger anyone ever again.

BlueJac

(7,838 posts)
4. Where the hell is the DOJ...
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 12:45 PM
Jan 2022

Oh I know, playing secret chess games that we should be patient and not worry!

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