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APPARENT ‘SWATTING’ INCIDENT TARGETS JUDGE IN TRUMP ELECTION CASE
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Tanya S. Chutkan, the judge presiding over former President Donald J. Trump’s
federal election case, also has received a voice mail message with a racial slur
and a death threat.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
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Police officers and emergency personnel were sent on Sunday night to the
Washington home of the federal judge overseeing former President Donald J.
Trump’s election interference case in what appeared to be an incident of
“swatting,” according to three people familiar with the matter.
The police and fire vehicles were responding to a report that a shooting had
occurred at the home of the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, who has been handling the
criminal case accusing Mr. Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, the
people said. According to an incident report released by Washington’s
Metropolitan Police Department that did not name Judge Chutkan, officers were
“advised that she was not injured and that there was no one in her home” when
they arrived at the house around 10 p.m. Sunday.
Swatting is the colloquial term for filing false reports to the police to set
off a threatening or potentially dangerous response by officers. Incidents of
swatting have become more common in recent years and have been used against
various politicians and public figures.
It was unclear who told police that there had been a shooting, and there was no
way to determine if the episode was linked to Judge Chutkan’s handling of Mr.
Trump’s criminal case or to any of the cases she has overseen connected to the
attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021.
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The incident took place one day after the third anniversary of Jan. 6 and two
days before a crucial appeals court hearing concerning Mr. Trump’s claim that he
is immune from prosecution in the case because the charges arose from actions he
took while he was in the White House.
TAKEAWAYS FROM TRUMP’S INDICTMENT IN THE 2020 ELECTION INQUIRY
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Four charges for the former president. Former President Donald Trump was charged
with four counts in connection with his widespread efforts to overturn the 2020
election. The indictment was filed by the special counsel Jack Smith in Federal
District Court in Washington. Here are some key takeaways:
The indictment portrayed an attack on American democracy. Smith framed his case
against Trump as one that cuts to a key function of democracy: the peaceful
transfer of power. By underscoring this theme, Smith cast his effort as an
effort not just to hold Trump accountable but also to defend the very core of
democracy.
Trump was placed at the center of the conspiracy charges. Smith put Trump at the
heart of three conspiracies that culminated on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to
obstruct Congress’s role in ratifying the Electoral College outcome. The special
counsel argued that Trump knew that his claims about a stolen election were
false, a point that, if proved, could be important to convincing a jury to
convict him.
Trump didn’t do it alone. The indictment lists six co-conspirators without
naming or indicting them. Based on the descriptions provided, they match the
profiles of Trump lawyers and advisers who were willing to argue increasingly
outlandish conspiracy and legal theories to keep him in power. It’s unclear
whether these co-conspirators will be indicted.
Trump’s political power remains strong. Trump may be on trial in 2024 in three
or four separate criminal cases, but so far the indictments appear not to have
affected his standing with Republican voters. By a large margin, he remains his
party’s front-runner in the presidential primaries.
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In July 2022, another federal judge in Washington, Emmet G. Sullivan, also had
the police called to his house in what appeared to be a swatting incident. That
episode took place the night before Judge Sullivan was set to preside over a
hearing where Anthime Gionet, a far-right activist nicknamed “Baked Alaska,” was
set to plead guilty in connection with the Capitol attack.
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Alan Feuer covers extremism and political violence for The Times, focusing on
the criminal cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and against former
President Donald J. Trump. More about Alan Feuer
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