Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold stopped counting the death threats she’s received from Donald Trump supporters as her state successfully challenged his right to be on its 2024 presidential ballot, she said Wednesday in a new report.
“I’ve received hundreds if not thousands of threats at this point,” Griswold told the Huffington Post. “I’m extremely concerned.”
Griswold made this admission after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled to block Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment ban on insurrectionists, a decision the former president has vowed to take to the Supreme Court.
But Griswold says she’s been receiving terrifying messages since she first filed the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington lawsuit challenging Trump’s eligibility in September, the Huffington Post reports.
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In the following three weeks, she received 64 death threats and more than 900 abuse threats, a staggering number considering Griswold had nothing to do with the actual case.
“I filed it because I’m the secretary of state,” Griswold noted. “I did not bring this case.”
But Griswold said she approves of her state’s Supreme Court decision because she’s been concerned about Trump since Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
“It just underlines that Donald Trump is a major threat to American democracy, elections and stability,” the Colorado official said. “When he doesn’t win elections, he tries to steal them. He is a dangerous leader for this country.”
Despite the threats, Griswold believes Colorado will have a “good” and “normal” election and has vowed she will not be “intimidated” by extremists.
“We cannot allow these people trying to steal elections and using rhetoric to incite violence,” Griswold told the Huffington Post.
"I’ll be as smart as possible with my security issues, but I am not going to be intimidated by Donald Trump or anybody else on the MAGA right.”
