Abigail Jo Shry Is In Jail Without Bail
I have to admit that the bloodthirsty side of me wasn’t saddened when Craig Robertson, the violent Provo MAGAt who threatened to kill Biden, Kamala and prosectors in the Trump cases, was shot and killed by FBI agents while they were attempting to arrest him. One less of them. And I was not weeping when Ohio MAGAt Ricky Shiffer was killed in a shootout a year ago when he tried breaking into the FBI office in Cincinnati to avenge to FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. Make that two less of them.
Let’s see what happens with Abigail Jo Shry, the MAGAt crackpot who called Judge Tanya Chutkan and left a voice message: “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, bitch. You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it.” Shry, like most Trump supporters, a vicious racist, also threatened to kill Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
Shry, who was arrested and denied bail and is being held for “at least 30 days,” is from Alvin, Texas. Her father says she’s a drunkard who sits around on her couch all day drinking beers and yelling at the TV and then calling up people and threatening them.
I’ve always been law and order guy, especially when it comes to right-wing terrorists. So, I’m glad to read that the FBI is taking the MAGA threats against the Atlanta grand jurors who indicted Trump seriously. Washington Post reporters Holly Bailey and Hannah Allam termed it “a barrage of threats against Fulton County officials in recent days.” The names, home addresses, photos and social media profiles of some members of the grand jury were posted— along with threatening messages targeting them and District Attorney Fani Willis (D)— on right-wing websites. The MAGAts have also been calling in bomb threats to the county courthouse.
Bailey and Allam reported that on right-wing online forums “users imagined the jurors being tried and convicted of indicting Trump, with thinly veiled references to death sentences or vigilante justice, according to a compilation released by Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan research group that tracks extremist threats. ‘These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump,’ one user wrote in a large forum for pro-Trump extremists, according to the report. In other forums, users referred to the grand jurors’ names as a ‘hit list,’ prompting a reply about long-range rifles…The report also included an exchange where users were trying to determine the racial and religious backgrounds of the jurors. ‘There are only 2 names on there that could be jewish,’ one user said, listing the names. As with Trump’s previous indictments, chatter about ‘civil war’ also surged, briefly trending on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The notion that the indictments cleaved the nation into ‘us vs. them’ was reinforced by prominent right-wing politicians, conservative news outlets and far-right podcasters.
“You are in a civil war,” proclaimed the podcaster Tim Pool, who boasts millions of subscribers across platforms. The declaration was mocked by left-wing activists who pointed out that Pool previously has tried in vain to whip up his followers after Trump legal developments.
In anti-government Telegram channels, the sentiment among self-styled members of armed groups was less about defending Trump and more about outrage at what they perceive as prosecutorial overreach, probably aided by what one popular post deemed a “leftist puppet master.”
Though armed groups largely have been quiet in recent months— in part because of the Justice Department’s prosecution of extremists involved in the U.S. Capitol attack of Jan. 6, 2021— monitoring groups have warned that they shouldn’t be discounted as a threat, particularly as Trump’s multiple criminal indictments play out.
