All posts tagged "Threats"

Washington (AFP) - The 2024 US election is under threat from a growing number of foreign actors using ever more sophisticated methods to conduct interference, the country's top intelligence official warned Wednesday. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines singled out Russia, China and Iran as the worst offenders -- but added the federal government had never been better prepared to protect American democracy from foreign influence. "(There) are an increasing number of foreign actors, including non-state entities, who are looking to engage in election influence activities," she told US s......

Donald Trump on Saturday posted seven pages of social media rants about how he is "entitled" to full presidential immunity from all criminal charges, causing legal experts and political onlookers to rage over the messages.

"IF THEY TAKE AWAY MY PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, THEY TAKE AWAY CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY," Trump wrote in the first post on the subject Saturday.

That stood out to former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, who said, "My initial reaction is that this is dumb because Joe Biden doesn't need presidential immunity, he hasn't committed any crimes. But more properly read, this is a threat."...

Former president Donald Trump has "set the stage" for U.S. judges to be pummeled with death threats by disparaging the judiciary system and those who have sworn to uphold it, according to a new report.

Trump, the frontrunner Republican in the 2024 presidential race, also faces 91 felonies in four criminal court cases he has cast as a political witch hunt.

That rhetoric, according to a federal judge who handles dozens of Jan. 6 cases, comes at a price. ...

Tony Schwartz, the co-author for former President Donald Trump's "The Art of the Deal," doesn't plan on staying in America if the former president is put back in office, he said on MSNBC's "The Beat" Wednesday.

This comes as Trump increasingly starts comparing himself and his own legal problems to those of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died this month in a Siberian labor camp — which Schwartz warned anchor Ari Melber is a red flag for what his plans are for the future.

"If anyone holds him accountable in any court of law in the country, he likes to say he is a dissident, and this is dangerous because other leaders have used this very card abroad to great effect and they can convince large groups of people that they are actually the embattled underdog or that the system is against them," said Melber. "Do you see this as something dangerous, where this is the way he convinces people?"...

Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman, a Republican, announced earlier this week that he will not be returning to the job for the 2024 election, The Guardian reports, "Due to years of threats he faced at work and the punishing environment" he's endured since 2020.

Hickman voted to confirm Arizona's largest county's 2020 election results, according to the report, "despite an aggressive campaign" from ex-President Donald Trump and GOP allies.

"After the election in 2020, it’s gotten worse and worse," he said. "I started to feel like all I get to do is play defense in this job any more … I thought I was looking way too much in the rearview mirror.”...

Donald Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday night to give his account of what he called “an amazing day” in the courtroom where E. Jean Carroll described rape and death threats she received when he called her a liar.

Carroll is suing the former president for damages over denials that he sexually abused her in a luxury department store in the 1990s. Trump has already been found liable for sex abuse and defamation; the jury trial will determine damages on the latter.

Trump is prohibited from challenging the facts of Carroll’s case in court, but he was quick to hurl insults and accusations at the former journalist and federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan on his social media site. ...