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Federal magistrate who signed Mar-a-Lago warrant facing terroristic online threats [1]
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Date: 2022-08-10
According to an analysis by nonprofit public-interest investigator Advance Democracy, Reinhart has been the target of highly graphic and antisemitic posts on pro-Trump platforms like Patriots.win (formerly TheDonald), Gab, Truth Social and Gettr, as well as on pro-Trump channels at 4chan. Other posters have attempted to dox Reinhart and his relatives.
Patriots.win/TheDonald is the same forum where many members of the horde that swarmed into the Capitol posted threats of violence. That’s particularly alarming to Advance Democracy founder Daniel J. Jones.
“The threats against Judge Reinhart in the wake of the Mar-a-Lago raid are significant,” Daniel J. Jones, founder of Advance Democracy, told VICE News. “In addition to the antisemitic and violent slurs, we’re seeing his address and other personal information being shared online—with the implied or explicit purpose of ‘real-life’ action.” A message board where a number of these threats were posted also happens to be the same one where many of those involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot posted threats of violence in the lead-up to Jan. 6. These threats against the judge, Jones told VICE News, are “all the more alerting given the events of January 6.”
Looking at samples of posts obtained by VICE, Jones is being extremely kind in calling these threats “significant.”
“This is the piece of shit judge who approved FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago,” a user wrote on the pro-Trump message board formerly known as TheDonald. “I see a rope around his neck.” Responding, another user wrote: “Idgaf [I don’t give a fuck] anymore. Name? Address? Put that shit all up on here.” Moments later, a different member replied with what appears to be Reinhart’s current address, phone numbers, previous addresses, and names of possible relatives. In another post on the same message board, one user commented, “Let's find out if he has children....where they go to school, where they live...EVERYTHING.”
This isn’t just significant. This is horrifying. At least as horrifying, if not more so, is the deafening silence from Trump and what passes for leadership in the GOP. If Trump has any designs on being president again, he will call a halt to this talk, and now. I realize that he’s had dozens of chances to appear presidential and blown most, if not all, of them eight ways to Sunday. But if he isn’t willing to speak up, he ought to do us all a favor and help end this national nightmare by getting out of the 2024 race.
Even if Trump sits on his hands, the people making these threats may be in for a very hard dose of reality. I was first tipped off to this story by prominent never-Trump conservative Contented Independent, who posted a very stark warning on Twitter about what will happen to these posters.
x Every last person who is doing this is gonna get arrested.
Every last one.
https://t.co/iK1xflF8nU — Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) August 10, 2022
Contented Indie had seen the threatening posts crop up early on, and warned that anyone making such posts would face the full weight of the federal government.
x If you post photos and the address of a federal judge, there is no disguise or program in this country that is gonna save you from getting your door broken down.
These stupid assholes. All throwing their lives away.
All for the GOP. — Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) August 9, 2022
x If you threaten the president of the United States, or the attorney general, or law enforcement.
You will be arrested. — Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) August 9, 2022
One good thing that may come out of this? This could potentially be the end of Truth Social. I thought Truth Social wouldn’t even launch after we learned last fall that Trump was using stolen Mastodon code to power it. But if these kinds of threats are flying around Truth Social, it’s only a matter of time before it gets kicked out of Apple’s App Store and gets fired by whoever provides it with hosting services. Hopefully Gab and Gettr get the same treatment.
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