They are 23 to be threatened. While Donald Trump was indicted on Monday by a grand jury from the state of Georgia, their identity was revealed in the indictment against the former American president, as noted by TF1.
Donald Trump is accused, along with 18 others, of unlawfully attempting to secure victory in this key state in the 2020 presidential election. status of the 41 charges against him. On page 9, it is possible to read the names of the 23 jurors who approved the indictment of the former president. This citizens’ panel was given investigative powers by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has been investigating the case since 2021.
Since Monday, August 14, these 23 jurors have been targeted by pro-Trump activists and forums popular with the American far right. On a conversation titled “Politically incorrect” from the 4chan site, calls for violence against them were made. Comments also refer to the “Turner Notebook method” against “those traitors”. This book is a text marked by white supremacism, openly racist and anti-Semitic, in which innocent black or Jewish Americans are massacred, accused of controlling the American state.
As of Tuesday, Internet users began to disclose the personal information of several jurors. Photos of two of them were posted on X, formerly Twitter, forcing the grand jury members to turn off their social media. Contacted by American media, the jurors preferred to remain silent, and the son of one of them mentioned “security issues”.
Other supporters of the ex-president did not call for violence, believing themselves to be victims of a trap. Unaware that the release of jurors’ names is not secret under Georgia state law, they believed the list was “intentionally” leaked as “bait” to provoke Donald’s admirers. Trump.