Jena Griswold received 64 death threats and more than 900 threats of abuse within three weeks of the case being filed to keep Trump off the state ballot.

Jena Griswold received 64 death threats and more than 900 threats of abuse within three weeks of the case being filed to keep Trump off the state ballot.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Wednesday she is “extremely concerned” about fanatical supporters of Donald Trump becoming violent in response to the state Supreme Court ruling that Trump is ineligible to appear on Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.

“I’ve been concerned about violence and threats of violence since Donald Trump incited the insurrection,” Griswold, who has been Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state since 2019, said in an interview. “I’ve received hundreds if not thousands of threats at this point.”

She’s faced an astounding uptick in threats amid the lawsuit over Trump’s eligibility to appear on the state ballot, even though she has nothing to do with it. The case, which was brought in September by the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, was filed by six unaffiliated and Republican voters in Colorado.

  • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    932·
    11 months ago

    What’s the point of all this PRISM surveillance and whatever else the NSA has that we don’t know about if they don’t catch these guys and stop the threats?

    • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social
      533·
      11 months ago

      Those are only to be used against leftists.

      Why would the security state attack their own goons they radicalized for the purpose empowering the executive branch.

      • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
        41·
        11 months ago

        It’s frustrating how much of the current programs run by governments like America or group projects like IMF, are built to repress our natural need as helpful, social animals.

        Conservatives have built the system to monitor, repress, or stifle left (human well-being focused) movements.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        55·
        11 months ago

        Boolshit. The government knows where the threats lie. But here’s the thing; The government has to play by the rules. And those rules are hard and fast, cannot be broken. The bad actors do not have such inhibitions.

        The bad actors are taking advantage. They’ve figured it out.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      It is in theory illegal for the NSA to spy on US citizens.

      It still happens, but if that were to be used in the prosecution of the case, it’d be gift wrapping it for the defense.

      Which is why parallel construction is a thing when it does get used. But that requires manual work to create a plausible parallel trail to the same result.

      As such we’re more likely to see signals intelligence being used to plan prevention than to prosecute.

  • PunnyName@lemmy.world
    401·
    11 months ago

    Any rational person would be concerned about Fuckface 45 and his ilk.

    Edit: and hopefully each threat is identified and charged.

      • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Just FYI, there’s not going to be any such thing as online ‘anonymity’ within a decade, even for things previously posted.

        I wouldn’t be overly concerned about it, but you should at least have it in mind.

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    35·
    11 months ago

    Great time to be living in the mountains and not Colorado Springs. Not to say there aren’t those types around here but we’re pretty left leaning, at least in the ski towns.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    11 months ago

    I cannot wrap my head around what it will take to wake Americans up. Let them kill a justice or three. Let people see what we’re up against.

    What will be enough?!

    • Lasherz12@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      That’s blood in the water you don’t want to encourage. These people will not learn, they are just a minority view that needs to be outvoted and reversed. Unfortunately the reason why they’re able to act as if they’re not a minority is largely because they receive very little meaningful criticism across media. The vulgarity of a statement receiving the same exact cycle of pearl clutching as the fascistic or authoritarian nature statements makes it all seem meaningless between the few good shows like Mehdi Hasan (and he’s gone now…)

        • Lasherz12@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          There’s a lot of things that make it appear that way, but statistically they are the vocal minority opinion. Young people voting in the same percentage of old people would make this very clear, but that isn’t likely or maybe even possible in states with highly restrictive voting avenues.