The real important take away here is that Green & the other elected & appointed officials, especially the Republicans, know that Trump is the source of a lot of the threats & he could stop the bulk of them. Which is why she asked him to stop & he said no. 1/
A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) nytimes.com
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Here's Mitt Romney explaining why he's spending something like $10,000 a day on private security for him & his family because of the threats & why these threats, on behalf of Trump, were why GOP senators refused to vote to convict him & be done w/him in 2021. 2/
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This article details the organized & coordinated threats directed at Ernst & her family in order to break her & force her to vote for Hegseth's confirmation because Trump & his team rightly believed that if they could force her to vote for Hegseth every other GOP senator would get inline. 3/
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The same type of campaign was run against Tillis. He, his wife, his kids, his grandkids were all threatened in a successful attempt to get him to drop his opposition to Hegseth. 4/
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And we know this is coordinate for Trump by his caddy Dan Scavino. It has been reported since Trump's first term that Scavino was essentially Trump's ambassador to the extremist right across a variety of social media and online platforms. 5/
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Yes, bog standard Trump supporters/MAGA movement members are making threats based on what they think Trump would want without any coordination or specific prodding because he & his surrogates & aides have created a permission structure for the average Trump supporter to do so. 6/ This is happening along side what we know from reporting going back a decade is a coordinate strategy & operation to threaten & intimidate elected & appointed Republican officials into doing what Trump wants, as well as to endanger the lives of Democratic officials for just being Democrats. 7/ The criminal investigation into Congresswoman Omar, including the search of her residence, is just part of that program. Which is itself the newest line of effort in the attempt to threaten her & create a permission structure where someone makes &/or carries out a threat to her life. 8/ Trump himself was heavily involved in earlier attempts at threatening & intimidating her back in 2019 as a result of fabricated information tweeted by Dan Crenshaw & then amplified by Brian Kilmeade, which is how it got to Trump. 9/
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I have little empathy for Green, Ernst, Tillis, Cassidy, Romney, & the other GOP officials being targeted & threatened by Trump, his aides, surrogates, & supporters. But the most pressing domestic security threat in the US right now comes from Trump, his aides, surrogates, & supporters. 10/ Trump, his aides, surrogates, & supporters are the ultimate of insider threats, along w/the ultra-high net worth individuals that are bankrolling GOP candidates. They're the real clear & present danger to America & Americans right now. And they'll continue to be until they're stopped. 11 & end/