A Texas woman has been arrested for allegedly making threats against the federal judge who granted former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to review documents FBI agents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
In a criminal complaint, the FBI accused Tiffani Shea Gish of Houston, Texas, with leaving several threatening voicemails for U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over Trump's case against the Department of Justice. Gish is charged with making threats to influence a federal official and transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce communications containing threats to injure another person.
According to the affidavit by FBI Special Agent Amy Avila, on Sept. 3, 2022, Judge Cannon turned over three voicemails she received containing threatening messages to Supervisory Deputy United States Marshal Michael Witkowski.
The messages were left on Cannon's answering machine on Sept. 1 by an individual who identified herself as "Evelyn Salt" and claimed to be "in charge of nuclear for the United States government." Excerpts from the voicemails state that Trump was "disqualified" and "marked for assassination" and accused Cannon of "helping him."
"So, here's what we're going to do, we're going to let you disarm f***ing live nukes off your coffee table ... how about you sit on an electric chair a couple times over ... you think you've got the magical ability to pop up from the dead ... pretending that you're on the team of justice," a message left for Cannon said.
The message went on to say Cannon was also "marked for assassination" and "I'm also Trump's hitman, so consider it a bullet to your head from Donald Trump himself."
Another message accused Trump of being responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and made a bomb threat against Cannon's house. The third message threatened to shoot Cannon in front of her children and demanded that she "stand the f*** down."
According to the FBI affidavit, the United States Marshals Service identified the messages as belonging to a cell phone associated to Gish. U.S. Marshals then contacted the Secret Service, which confirmed that previously Gish had also allegedly made threats directed towards former President Donald Trump
Gish was subsequently interviewed by U.S. Marshals. During that interview, she admitted to leaving the voicemails on Cannon's answering machine and told agents she owns the cell phone that made the calls and that no one else has access to it, according to the FBI affidavit. She was arrested on Sept. 6.
On Sept. 9, Gish was ordered to be detained pending her trial by Magistrate Judge Peter Bray of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Bray's order stated that Gish "appears to suffer from severe mental impairments with symptoms including paranoia and delusions."
A hearing to determine whether Gish is competent to stand trial has been scheduled for Sept. 13, 2022.
Elon Musk blasted Twitter — the social media giant he recently agreed to purchase for $44 billion — after the creator of Libs of TikTok said she's received "about a dozen death threats," and yet Twitter didn't sanction any of the accounts from which the threats originated.
Libs of TikTok on Monday tweeted: “Update: I have now received about a dozen death threats after radical leftists accused me of being a domestic terrorist extremist. Twitter has not removed any of the accounts of those who sent the threats."
With that, Musk tweeted a reply — one-word question directed at Twitter: "Why?"
\u201c@libsoftiktok Why? @Twitter\u201d— Libs of TikTok (@Libs of TikTok) 1655162983
Musk's reply has received over 80,000 likes as of Tuesday afternoon.
He later added that "a platform cannot be considered inclusive or fair if it is biased against half the country."
\u201c@stillgray @libsoftiktok @Twitter A platform cannot be considered inclusive or fair if it is biased against half the country\u201d— Libs of TikTok (@Libs of TikTok) 1655162983
Musk has repeatedly called out Twitter's left-wing bias and has said he wants the platform to operate as a proponent of free speech — which, of course, doesn't include death threats.
Libs of TikTok tweeted a message Tuesday apparently indicating that Twitter suspended a number of accounts in connection to the death threats — and thanked Musk, too:
\u201cThank you @elonmusk.\u201d— Libs of TikTok (@Libs of TikTok) 1655226282
The timing of Musk's Twitter critique carries some drama with it. The Tesla CEO reportedly will address Twitter employees for the first time at a Thursday virtual meeting and take questions, Bloomberg reported.
Libs of TikTok's issues with Twitter are not new, and just last week the social media platform reportedly locked out Libs of TikTok over a tweet thread criticizing drag queen-related events for children.
But the account made a triumphant comeback Thursday: "I'm back! Apparently posting videos and flyers of drag events is abusive but the actual events are just 'innocent family friendly entertainment,'" Libs of TikTok declared.
A Wisconsin anti-abortion group received a series of chilling death threats on voicemail after a Molotov cocktail attack damaged its headquarters last weekend. One of messages came courtesy of a sinister character who sang "Burn, Jesus freaks! Burn, burn, burn!"
Wisconsin Family Action was targeted after a Supreme Court decision draft overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked May 2.
First came the Molotov cocktail attack, which resulted in fire damage; also a spray-painted message outside the offices read, “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t, either."
Later death threats and other vile messages were left on WFA voicemail, CBN News reported.
One woman asked if the attack was due to arson or “the good Lord” showing the group “an example of hell," as that's where the "misogynistic" WFA should be.
One man left a message saying that "you’re all going to burn … you’re following the f***ing devil" and that “I hope you all burn ... that’s what you deserve.”
Another man declared that “whoever set that fire is a true American patriot. You people are just utter filth of the planet. And it’s too bad your whore mothers didn’t abort each and every last one of you. Hopefully, you all get cancer ...”
Another guy sadistically sang, “Burn, little Jesus freaks! Burn, burn, burn!”
BREAKING AUDIO: @HumanEvents obtains tape of death threats sent by to Wisconsin pro-life center that was firebombed this week\n\nDue to disturbing content, discretion is advised \nhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/may-12-2022-violent-left-leaves-death-threats-for-wisconsin/id1585243541?i=1000560850319\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/dq38HIxNGb— Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jack Posobiec \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1652407695
Wisconsin Family Action's mission is "to advance Judeo-Christian principles and values" in the state by "strengthening, preserving, and promoting marriage, family, life, and liberty." Specifically it backs "the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception through natural death. This includes opposing legislation that promotes the destruction of human life – which starts at conception – through abortion and other means."
Madison police are investigating claims reportedly from a group called "Jane's Revenge" that it's responsible for the arson at Wisconsin Family Action, Fox News reported.
A statement attributed to the group announced additional impending violence against pro-life groups, the cable network said: "This was only a warning. We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days. This is not a mere ‘difference of opinion,' as some have framed it. We are literally fighting for our lives. We will not sit still while we are killed and forced into servitude."
The statement added that "next time the infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. Medical imperialism will not face a passive enemy. Wisconsin is the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US, and we will issue no further warnings," Fox News said.
(H/T: Life News)
In this clip, Steven Crowder sat down with comedians Nick Di Paolo and Dave Landau and discussed the death threats and terrorist threats they received over the years.
Di Paolo recalled when a threat was made on his life while he was on his way to perform stand-up in Las Vegas.
"I was on the phone with the FBI and we had to make the hotel aware ... It was scary," he said.
Crowder recalled when the local police showed up at his house to inform him that his address, his wife's work address, and the driving route from home to his wife's place of work had been exposed to the public on YouTube.
The police became aware of the situation when a fan from London noticed an address posted in the comment section under one of Crowder's YouTube videos and decided to cross-reference the zip code to see who lived there. The fan realized the address was legitimate and contacted the local police. Crowder later learned he was on an ISIS kill list and a terrorist posted the address.
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The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus set a music video to private after the group said it received "threats of harm" over the song that repeats the lines "we'll convert your children" and "we're coming for your children" numerous times.
Chorus director Chris Verdugo told Yahoo Life the tune — "A Message from the Gay Community" — is "satirical."
The SFGMC posted the video on its YouTube page July 1. It begins with one singer introducing the tune by saying, "As we celebrate Pride and progress we've made over these past years, there's still work to be done. So to those of you out there who are still working against equal rights, we have a message for you."
Then the singing begins:
You think we're sinful
You fight against our rights
You say we all lead lives you can't respect
But you're just frightened
You think that we'll corrupt your kids
If our agenda goes unchecked
Funny, just this once, you're correct
We'll convert your children
Happens bit by bit
Quietly and subtly
And you will barely notice it
You can keep them from disco
Warn about San Francisco
Make 'em wear pleated pants
We don't care
We'll convert your children
We'll make them tolerant and fair
The full chorus also sings:
We're coming for them
We're coming for your children
We're coming for them
We're coming for them
We're coming for your children
For your children
While the original clip is not viewable, it has been posted elsewhere:
"A Message From the Gay Community Performed by the San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus" www.youtube.com
Yahoo Life wrote that "not everyone got the joke" and said that after the video "went viral" it "was then lambasted by conservative media for its child-focused theme, even prompting death threats against the vocalists ..." The "conservative media" link is for TheBlaze's Wednesday story; the "lambasted" link is for Rod Dreher's piece in the American Conservative.
Verdugo told Yahoo Life that it was a "difficult decision" to set the video to private "because we are an organization whose mission really is both artistic but also activist. We are the first gay men's chorus on the planet. … We are a social justice organization … so it's very difficult for us to decide to take down that video. But the soloists — who are not in the chorus but, in their own right, rising Broadway stars, have received death threats."
Yahoo Life also reported that "critics have used various Twitter accounts to take screenshots of the chorus, numbered the individuals and created spreadsheets, harassing them, even at their places of work."
"All over a satirical piece of music," Verdugo said, according to the outlet.
The SFGMC on Thursday issued a statement on the issue that reads, in part:
The far-right conservative media found our "Message..." video and have taken it as their cause. This has all happened in the last 24 hours and it continues to pick up steam. They have taken the lyrics out of context to support a narrative that suits their intolerant and hateful needs. It is obvious the tongue-in-cheek humor is lost on many. As a result, we have seen the user comments on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram become increasingly alarming. Emails to individuals and the chorus office are vitriolic – including threats of harm.
We feel the first action we must take to keep everyone involved with the chorus and the making of this video safe is to turn the video to private. We are communicating with law-enforcement both locally and nationally. We will not be threatened and we follow legal steps to act on those threats. We will always accept others who may hold different values, but when violence is their choice of expression, since 1969 we have not backed down. After decades of children being indoctrinated and taught intolerance for anyone who is "other," from using the Bible as a weapon to reparative therapy, it's our turn. We have dedicated ourselves to being role models, teaching, and spreading the message of love, tolerance and celebration through our music.
Our second action is to work to control the narrative. The video is being illegally copied and placed on YouTube, Instagram and other websites. Others have the right to follow Fair Use laws, but that is not what is happening here. Therefore, our social media and marketing staff are working around the clock to alert moderators at YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and to file DMCA's (take down of websites featuring stolen content). So far, this has been very successful.
Verdugo told Yahoo Life he didn't think the song would elicit the degree of negative reaction it did.
"It's a lightning rod," he acknowledged to the outlet, in regard to what Yahoo Life said were "the risks of referencing anything gay and child-related in the same breath."
However, Verdugo also told the outlet that the song "came from a very innocent place. We weren't trying to antagonize anyone … we never thought it would — and perhaps that's on us."
Remember child drag queen Desmond Is Amazing? The kid made many headlines over the past few years in relation to his drag pursuits.
Well, Desmond happens to love the SFGMC's song and said so on Facebook:
Despite the SFGMC's vehement defense of the song, not everyone is buying it.
Becket Adams, a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner, took issue with the response of gay men's chorus and let them have it:
“you misunderstood us when we said verbatim ‘we’re coming for your children.’”lmaooo “also, we’re not going to ba… https://t.co/M4BSYGS3cK
— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) 1625834798.0
Dreher in his piece noted that "what these smart-asses in San Francisco did was make a satirical song and video that would win them plaudits in their own circles by making fun of normies ... the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus said the quiet part out loud. Sure, they say in the video that they're talking about converting them into being 'tolerant and fair,' but that is not at all how it will be received. ..."
He added, "The contempt these men show towards parents who don't think like them is at the heart of this. The taunting that says, whatever your religious beliefs, we are going to steal the hearts and minds of your children, and there is nothing you hicks can do to stop us. It gives the game away. It gives the game away for them, and for all their corporate allies."
Conservative journalist Andy Ngo has fled the United States amid a constant barrage of Antifa death threats.
In an interview with Sky News about his upcoming new book, "Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy," Ngo explained to his hosts that "for an number of months now there's just been increasing threats of violence against me, promises by Antifa extremists to kill me."
Ngo — who's now in London — noted that "all those threats were reported to authorities, and even when I provided names of some of the suspects, nothing was done. So, it's pained me a lot to temporarily [have] to leave the country and home that settled my parents, who came there as political refugees."
Andy Ngo: Antifa has forced me to flee my homeyoutu.be
Ngo had been living in Portland, Oregon, which is arguably Antifa Central in the United States. And for several years he's paid special attention to the activities of the violent left-wing group — and has even infiltrated Antifa to get first-hand information about their actions, tendencies, and core values.
Antifa militants — who claim they're fascism fighters while wantonly practicing fascism at every turn — ganged up on and brutally beat Ngo in a June 2019 incident captured on video.
Content warning: Language:
Conservative writer Andy Ngo roughed up at Portland antifa/right wing protestsyoutu.be
And while it would seem that Ngo has every incentive to ruin Antifa, he said in the wake of the U.S. Capitol riots that from his vantage point Antifa militants weren't among the rioters inside the building.
"The people occupying the Capitol building do not look like Antifa people dressed in Trump gear or Trump costumes," he told the Washington Examiner in an interview from England.
He added to the paper that he's seen "no evidence that they are able to coordinate a mass infiltration on this scale before, so I'm really skeptical that they would have been able to do it here without any of that information leaking out."
A little over a week ago, New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong — who was hired by the "paper of record" despite her history of relentless social media attacks against "dumbass f***ing white people." — set her sights on Ngo, calling him "dangerous" and a "very real threat."
Antifa also has been making a valiant effort to bully Portland's famed Powell's Books into not selling Ngo's upcoming book — the store has already said it won't stock it on shelves or promote it and will sell it only online. As you might guess, that's not quite good enough for Antifa:
"STOP SELLING ANDY NGO'S BOOK""HELL NO, WE WON'T NGO"A crowd of #antifa have gathered outside @Powells bookstore… https://t.co/63xPZmhdyR— Andy Ngô (@Andy Ngô)1610403874.0
Parler CEO John Matze said this week that he has been facing death threats in the days following his platform shutdown.
He also said that the de-platforming is nothing short of unconstitutional, and that technology companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google are kowtowing to Democrat demands.
Between Friday and Saturday, Google and Apple removed Parler from its app stores.
A day later, Amazon Web Services suspended the social media network's web hosting abilities, citing the company's reported refusal to remove inciting content shared by its users, which it said ultimately resulted in contributing to last week's deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol.
Parler filed a lawsuit on Monday that accused Amazon Web Services of breaching its contract and the violation of an antitrust law over the move.
Amazon Web Services said in response that it warned the site about user posts repeatedly, but to no avail.
"People have acted on these calls: Parler was used to incite, organize, and coordinate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol," Amazon Web Services said Tuesday in its court filing on the suit.
According to a Tuesday report from Newsweek, Matze revealed that he heard through news headlines that Apple, Google, and Amazon all had a hand in shuttering his web application, prohibiting users from downloading, logging on, or even viewing the social media site.
Matze told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday that he is now receiving death threats.
"People are threatening my life," he said. "I can't go home tonight. This is really a lot. This is not just our civil liberties. [Big Tech] can shut down a billion-dollar company, half-a-billion dollar company, overnight."
He did not specify the threats he purportedly received.
According to the outlet, Matze also said that he never thought the tech giants would actually shut down such a site.
"I've theorized about it, we've definitely theorized about it," he said. "You just never think it will happen though. What's really interesting is that they all did it on the same day, those three, without any prior warning."
He added that there is varying reactions to the site's shutdown, but there are many people who are "egging it on and cheering."
"I have seen a lot of people say this is scary, but I've seen a lot of people who are participating in the five minutes of hate and egging it on and cheering," Matze said. "It is disgusting."
A spokesperson for Google told the outlet that the app will remain absent from the Google Play store until the application addresses the speech issues.
"We're aware of continued posting in the Parler app that seeks to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.," the statement began. "We recognize that there can be reasonable debate about content policies, and that it can be difficult for apps to immediately remove all violative content, but for us to distribute an app through Google Play we do require that apps implement robust moderation for egregious content."
The statement continued, "In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues."
Parler CEO tells Tucker they are fighting for survival after mass Big Tech ban - 2021.01.12www.youtube.com
Matze said that he believes the site will be operational again "one day."
"We will be back up eventually because we're not going to give up," he insisted. "But soon is difficult. I thought immediately, 'No problem, I'll call up a new vendor.' We call up the vendor, we're all good to go, and then right at the last second, 'Sorry, somebody said something and we can't host you. 'Bye.' And it's been that one after another since then. Right at the last minute they just bail. We're going to do it. We're going to be back online one day, and hopefully soon, as soon as possible. But this is a real challenge. We have to build our own infrastructure, our own everything, in order to do it."
In an interview published Tuesday, Matze said that the suspension is nothing short of unconstitutional.
"I think it's sick," he said. "That's not what the Constitution said. That's not what the Constitution stands for, banning 10-plus million US voters from the internet, barring people from free speech."
He also said that tech companies are simply placating Democrats who are looking for a finger to point after the Capitol riots.
Fox News reported, "[Rep. Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), recently urged Apple and Google to take action against Parler, in a tweet the leader of the so-called 'Squad' of progressives sent to her 11.4 million followers. Ocasio-Cortez isn't alone. Many people on the left have made similar complaints."
Of the complaints, Matze said, "Frankly, I would call it evil, because my definition of evil is 'forcing your will upon others.' If you don't like what I have to say, you can disagree with me, but you cannot take vindictive action against me without being evil."
A woman was charged with making threats against a Republican election official in Michigan who had refused to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Details of the charges against 23-year-old Katelyn Jones were documented last week in an FBI court filing.
Prosecutors say that Jones sent a photos of a dead body and a threat to the family of Monica Palmer, a member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers.
The Wayne County Board became one of the centers of contention in the 2020 presidential election when two members refused to certify the results that claimed former Vice President Joe Biden was the winner.
"Based on what I saw and went through in poll books in this canvass, I believe that we do not have complete and accurate information in those poll books," said Palmer, the Republican chairwoman of the board, at the time.
The Republican members were publicly excoriated until they relented and later voted to certify the results.
Part of that public outrage included threats from Jones, said prosecutors.
Screenshots of the text messages allegedly sent by Jones showed photos of corpses blurred out. One of the messages asks Palmer to imagine the dead person is her daughter. Another calls her a terrorist for interfering in the election.
"The allegations in this case should make all of us disgusted," U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said. "There is simply no place in Michigan, or in the United States, for chilling threats like this to people who are simply doing what they believe is correct."
Schneider said there are other investigations into separate incidents of threats made against election officials.
Jones was charged with making threats of violence, and she faces up to 20 years of prison if found guilty of the charges.
After voting to certify the results, Palmer signed an affidavit saying she rescinded her vote because she was bullied and lied to by the Democrats.
New Hampshire woman accused of sending threatening texts to Wayne County canvasserwww.youtube.com
Searches for the lawmakers' names on the websites of MSNBC, ABC, CBS, The New York Times, and The Washington Post returned no recent results about the developments.
This is not the first time abortion radicals claiming to be part of Jane's Revenge have threatened or attacked pro-lifers.
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