WASHINGTON – The 34 felony convictions On Thursday, former President Donald Trump fired back at the prosecutors, the judge who oversaw the case and the jurors who secured his conviction, and unanimously agreed that there was no reasonable doubt that the Republican presidential nominee falsified business records. . Silence payments to porn star to benefit 2016 campaign.
Advance Democracy, a nonprofit public interest research organization, said there were numerous social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting New York Judge Juan Mercana and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, including one with Bragg’s alleged home address. The group also found postings of alleged juror addresses on an outside Internet message board known for pro-Trump content, harassment and violent posts, although it is unclear whether any actual jurors were correctly identified.
The posts, reviewed by NBC News, appear on multiple websites used by Trump supporters to organize violence ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. These forums were hotbeds of threats inspired by Trump’s lost 2020 election and lies about the voting system being “rigged” against him. Now they reflect Trump’s rhetoric with new threats and false claims of a hush money judgment, including that the court system is now “rigged” against him.
“Jury Docs. Fool them now,” one user wrote on the website formerly known as “The Donald” after Trump’s conviction. He was famous among the participants in the attack on the Capitol. (Apparently, this post was quickly deleted by the moderators.)
“We have to identify each jury. Then make them miserable. Maybe he even committed suicide,” wrote another user on the same forum. “1,000,000 men (armed) should go to Washington and hang them all. This is the only solution,” another user wrote. “This s— is out of control.”
“I hope every jury is bad and they pay for what they did,” another user wrote Thursday on the Trump’s Truth social media platform. “May God kill them. We will do it on November 5, they will pay!”
“War,” read a Telegram post from a chapter of the far-right group Proud Boys. the former chairman and three other members were found guilty of seditious conspiracy For their actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6, just months after Trump snidely told the group, “stand back and stopduring “ 2020 discussion.
“Now you understand. You have to fight to save your nation. Now is the time to answer. Franco started on Friday,” wrote another chapter of the Proud Boys, referring to Spain’s fascist dictator Francisco Franco.
A defendant serving time in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol also weighed in on X by posting a photo of Bragg and a noose. “On January 20, 2025, the traitors get the rope,” he wrote, referring to the date of the inauguration of the next president.
Threats follow a persistent pattern. NBC news analysis Earlier this year, Trump’s Truth Social posts showed that he often uses the platform as a megaphone to attack people involved in court cases — and some of his supporters responded. A Trump supporter at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as the FBI searches Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in 2022 posted angry posts about the search and then attacked FBI field office. When Trump posted a social media post last June that included former President Barack Obama’s home address, On January 6, the rioter repositioned it and then emerged at his residence. When it’s Trump accused In August, his supporters in Georgia placed alleged names and addresses of grand jury members. Jack Smith, special counsel overseeing Trump’s federal election meddling case in Washington The target of an attempted flutter on Christmas Day. So, the United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan will also be there control that court, if the Supreme Court allows it to go forward (although that could change if Trump wins in November). When Michael Fanone — the former police officer nearly killed on Jan. 6 by Trump supporters who believed the former president’s lies about the 2020 election — criticized Trump at a press conference outside the “hush money” trial earlier this week, his mother was angry. When Trump and conservative media outlets This week they spread false information about jury instructions in a hush money lawsuitThreats were received against Merchan.
“We continue to see a dangerous erosion of democratic norms,” Daniel J. Jones, president of Advance Democracy, told NBC News. “Trump and his allies have been spreading misinformation about the trial, challenging Justice Merch’s impartiality and for weeks describing the entire process as a ‘sham.’ So it’s no surprise that some of his most ardent supporters are now calling for doxxing and violence against jurors, the judge and the district attorney.
Jones said online activity has increased since Trump’s guilty verdict, making it important for elected officials to speak out against “the misinformation that Trump has been spreading, as well as the calls for violence that he has inspired.”
Ken Dilanian contributed.