Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction

[demmiblue]

WASHINGTON — The 34 felony guilty verdicts returned Thursday against former President Donald Trump spurred a wave of violent rhetoric aimed at the prosecutors who secured his conviction, the judge who oversaw the case and the ordinary jurors who unanimously agreed there was no reasonable doubt that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee falsified business records related to hush money payments to a porn star to benefit his 2016 campaign.

Advance Democracy, a non-profit that conducts public interest research, said there has been a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting New York Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, including a post with Bragg’s purported home address. The group also found posts of the purported addresses of jurors on a fringe internet message board known for pro-Trump content and harassing and violent posts, although it is unclear if any actual jurors had been correctly identified.

The posts, which have been reviewed by NBC News, appear on many of the same websites used by Trump supporters to organize for violence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. These forums were hotbeds of threats inspired by Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, which he lost, and that the voting system was “rigged” against him. They now feature new threats echoing Trump’s rhetoric and false claims about the hush money trial, including that the judicial system is now “rigged” against him.

“Dox the Jurors. Dox them now,” one user wrote after Trump’s conviction on a website formerly known as “The Donald,” which was popular among participants in the Capitol attack. (That post appears to have been quickly removed by moderators.)

“We need to identify each juror. Then make them miserable. Maybe even suicidal,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) need to go to washington and hang everyone. That’s the only solution,” wrote another user. “This s--- is out of control.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-supporters-try-doxx-jurors-post-violent-threats-conviction-rcna154882

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump is thrilled, this is exactly what he wants. Violence.

Violence to get his way.

[thucythucy]

2. I'm assuming this behavior--threatening public officials

as well of jurors--is illegal.

I'm hoping the perpetrators will be found and prosecuted, and the sooner the better.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. That's terrifying for those poor jurors. I hope the court is protecting them.

[Volaris]

4. '...had been correctly identified.' So, theyre gonna go doxx some random schmuck..

..who's address these fuckers got wrong!?

That seems like a fast way to get your maga ass thrown into a cell...

[2naSalit]

5. Their shit is out of control.

[Siwsan]

6. I haven't seen anything to indicate that they are anything but pathological bluster spewers

Hopefully it stays that way.

I'm relieved that there he was convicted but I'm still terrified about November.

[NutmegYankee]

8. They did openly talk of attacking the Capitol in late Dec/Early Jan.

So not all bluster.

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[shrike3]

15. I used to think they were all bluster.

Then Jan. 6 happened. I don't anymore.

[FlyingPiggy]

7. This is domestic terrorism. FBI needs to track these people down and make some arrests.

[Emile]

9. The judge needs to lock his ass up until his

sentencing date. It's only going to get worse.

[NanaCat]

14. If he were locked up

They'd be spewing the same violent rhetoric. They've been spewing it since Clinton.

[FloridaBlues]

10. I would imagine all jurors will not speak to the press for their own safety.

[B.See]

11. With regard to people making threats and inciting violence

I've always believed a kind of Newton's third law should apply...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Lock their treasonous asses up