A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

A fringe website featured the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 others for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
    751·
    1 year ago

    “It’s becoming all too commonplace to see everyday citizens performing necessary functions for our democracy being targeted with violent threats by Trump-supporting extremists," Jones said. "The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence— is shameful.”

    And there’s also this:

    Yesterday — after Trump posted on his social media website that authorities were going “after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!” — Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

      • SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 year ago

        Uh, I think those that are inclined have already acknowledged this. The others are very likely a lost cause, if this recent spate of reporting hasn’t convinced them that Trump is a freaking manipulator and crook. Where do we go from here? I don’t know how so many extremists could possibly just, you know, stop being so extreme. Naively, a civil war could fix the issue, but that is the last thing we need–war is never the answer.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
      16·
      1 year ago

      Advance Democracy noted that Trump supporters were “using the term ‘rigger’ in lieu of a racial slur” in posts online.

      Classy as ever

      • Raging LibTarg@lemmy.world
        22·
        1 year ago

        The instant I saw the word “RIGGERS” in his removed ass post yesterday, I knew exactly what it actually meant. Just more dog whistling fog horn blasting racism from The Cheeto Mussolini. 😡

    • grue@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      "The lack of political leadership on the right to denounce these threats — which serve to inspire real-world political violence— is shameful.”

      Charge every Republican politician who fails to publicly denounce them as an accessory to whatever crimes get committed against these grand jurors.