WASHINGTON – The addresses and phone numbers of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s family members have been posted on a doxxing site after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. 34 were found guilty of committing a crimey is counted In connection with the scheme to illegally influence the 2016 elections.
Trump’s former “cleaner” Cohen played a key role in the plot to silence adult film actor Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. He testified against Trump in court. According to Cohen, Trump said the revelation of Daniels’ affair would be “a complete disaster” and “disastrous” for his 2016 campaign.
Trump, who has denied an affair, has been accused of falsifying case records about Cohen’s hush money to prevent Daniels from telling her story. “What I did was at the behest of Mr. Trump and for his benefit,” said Cohen, who is serving a prison sentence. said in court.
According to the nonprofit research group Advance Democracy, the phone numbers and addresses of Cohen’s wife and children were posted early Monday on a site used to target other figures involved in Trump’s various legal troubles.
“What a sad time we live in when people resort to this kind of stupidity to vent their grievances,” Cohen told NBC News about his family’s attempts to release private information.
Trump supporters He tried to dox the judges last week after the trial, they also targeted the prosecutors and the judge in the case with threats. During the trial, The mother of a former police officer who was almost killed on January 62021, “demanded” after son by rioters who believed Trump’s lies about 2020 election He called Trump “authoritarian”. with a “violence fetish”.
“Our researchers routinely investigate potential threats and incitements to political violence,” said Daniel J. Jones, president of Advance Democracy. “During our most recent scan, we identified online doxxing of personal information for Michael Cohen, his wife and children. The person sharing the information online on a site known as doxxing likely intended to harm Cohen. This personal information related to the Cohen family details, in the context of calling Cohen a “lying bastard” and identifying him as a “Trump traitor,” presumably because he testified for the prosecution at former President Trump’s New York criminal trial.”