Law enforcement officials involved in prosecuting Donald Trump are facing substantial harassment and threats, and a legal expert called out the former president for “crowdsourcing” violence against his enemies.
Federal agencies said threats against law enforcement was down overall since Trump’s indictment in the classified documents case compared to the period right after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago as part of that investigation, but former prosecutor Barbara McQuade told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” the individual threats were alarming and highly unusual.
“This is not normal,” McQuade said. “From time to time, prosecutors do get death threats, maybe based on someone they’re prosecuting, but I think we’ve reached a whole different era when we’re sort of crowdsourcing these threats. Any time former president Donald Trump says these things about witch hunts and hoaxes, calling for the defunding of [the Department of Justice], there is the risk that someone out there is going to hear that and take matters into their own hands and go after these line career prosecutors.”
“I’ve had threats, others have had threats,” McQuade added. “The way it is usually handled is the U.S. Marshals Service can provide protection, sometimes including 24/7 protection, but it is very resource intensive. The prosecutors have been better things to do than to be checking in with their security detail and, you know, they have lives. They have children, they have errands to do in their personal lives. So this is a whole new day, if prosecutors have to think twice about whether they can do their job safely.”
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