Texas woman accused of calling judge overseeing Trump’s federal case

A Texas woman and supporter of Donald Trump has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing a criminal case against the former president, as well as a member of Congress. Abigail Jo Shry (pictured left) of Alvin, Texas, allegedly called the federal courthouse in Washington and left the threatening message – using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan (pictured right) – on August 5, court records show.

‘Hey, you stupid slave [expletive],’ she began the message, which she left at the judge’s chambers at 7:50 p.m, according to Department of Homeland Security officials. Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threatening call, according to a criminal complaint. In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the federal election interference conspiracy case against Trump, ‘You are in our sights, we want to kill you,’ the documents stated. A judge earlier this week ordered Shry jailed. On Monday, she was held without bond and charged with communicating a threat to injure another person across state lines, according to WUSA.

Special prosecutor Jack Smith has indicted Trump for alleged crimes to obstruct the 2020 election results and also for his mishandling of classified documents. Trump also faces state charges in New York for alleged hush-money payments. This week, the former president was also indicted in Georgia for his alleged role, along with 18 co-defendants, to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state. Smith has called for the trial on the federal election interference charges to start in July.

Prosecutors allege Shry also told Chutkan in the message, ‘If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly [expletive].’ She also threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (pictured), a Texas Democrat running for mayor of Houston, according to court documents. In addition, she set her sights on ‘all Democrats in Washington D.C. and all people in the LGBTQ community.’ ‘You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it,’ she added. When she was questioned by DHS agents, Shry claimed she had no plans to go to Washington but said if Lee came to Alvin, ‘then we need to worry.’

Trump has publicly assailed Chutkan, a former assistant public defender who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, calling her ‘highly partisan’ and ‘ VERY BIASED & UNFAIR!’ because of her past comments in a separate case overseeing the sentencing of one of the defendants charged in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Chutkan in a hearing Friday imposed a protective order in the case limiting what evidence handed over by prosecutors the former president and his legal team can publicly disclose. Read the full story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12415571/Abigail-Jo-Shry-Judge-Tanya-Chutkan-message-election.html?ito=msngallery

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