DOJs Election Threats Task Force Record of Convictions

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DOJs Election Threats Task Force Record of Convictions

DOJ Makes POWER MOVES that have Trump’s Crew TERRIFIED
by Michael Popok
MeidasTouch
9/4/2023

Right wing MAGA extremists better think twice about threatening to assassinate members of the US elections community, because they will be hunted down, arrested, indicted, convicted and sentenced by the DOJ’s new Election Threats Task Force. Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on 2 separate sentencings and 2 more guilty pleas obtained just this last week by a DOJ that hasn’t lost one of these cases yet.



Transcript

this is Michael popock legal AF at
Golden hour apparently and I'm here to
report on the Department of Justice and
its election threats task force that was
put in place by Joe Biden Merrick
Garland and the deputy attorney general
Lisa Monaco back in June of 2021 it is
paying dividends they are currently the
department of Justice's task force 9-0
in cases that they've brought and what
it brings to the fore for us to discuss
here on this hot take is that election
workers in the election Community is
under attack primarily by right-wing
Mega extremists who have lost any shred
of Civility
right the social contract for them was
ripped up long ago and has been trod
over by Donald Trump and they have
followed right over it and any aspect of
our democracy and the Integrity of our
election system and the weaponization
of protests about our election system is
not going to be tolerated by the
Department of Justice as they go after
both to protect election workers from
threats of death and physical violence
and they protect our democracy this is
why elections matter because there was
no never such thing as the election
threats task force protecting election
workers until Joe Biden was elected and
Merrick Garland became his attorney
general I mean sure this crime is on the
books that protect election workers and
any human being from being threatened
but it rises the level of a federal
crime and now you have a task force
within the Department of Justice that is
dedicated to rooting out this type of
violent extremism and to protect the
most vulnerable of people people sitting
in and around election offices just
doing their civic duty to make sure our
democracy stays on even Keel one of the
U.S attorneys in Arizona
referred to election workers in the
election worker Community as the First
Responders of democracy I think that's
put just perfectly let's talk about in
the last two weeks at least four cases
at least four cases in Arizona and in
Georgia of these
um indicted people are trying to attack
election workers either being sentenced
because they pled guilty or convicted or
have pled guilty awaiting sentencing so
let's just go through it all and I'll
give you a bit of the details on it
without giving the individual person too
much publicity or celebrity but the
Takeaway on this hot take this gold did
hot take
is that you have a justice department
that's working for you to that takes its
constitutional Duty seriously that takes
civil rights and attacks on federal
officers seriously in a way that the
prior president before Joe Biden did not
and this is the result this is the
America I would think you would want to
live in
where there is such a thing as an
election threats task force and they do
their job and bring people to Justice on
the guilty police side in the last week
we have Chad Stark has admitted his
guilt in the Northern District of
Georgia uh he is a Texas defendant but
reached into Georgia and made threats
there
in fact he posted on Craigslist a reward
for the killing and the assassination of
an election official
who he claimed was a communist or a
Chinese agent
so long Chad Stark in the district of
Arizona
an Ohio man
and by the way I'll just say the obvious
these are all men they're all white men
doing these things and Ohio white man
pled
um guilty
to making threats to the Secretary of
State of Arizona death threats
serious death threats
calling not only the person names but
ending with we're going to Lynch you
we're going to hang you we're going to
murder you that's Josh Russell an Ohio
man now two more just this past week
have been sentenced this just shows you
the amount of
crazy right-wing extremists white
supremacists and others
that are going after the most vulnerable
our first offenders of democracy
election workers who are just sitting
there some volunteering for no pay just
to count votes and make sure our
elections have integrity
that's all they're doing so now let's
turn back to the district of Arizona
federal court and Iowa man
defendant got two and a half years
his name is Mark Rossi rissy sorry
because he left a voicemail for an
election worker in which he threatened
to Lynch and hang this election worker
and bring people a posse along to do it
and then in Texas
we have
um Fred gulz who got three and a half
years in the Northern District of Texas
for making phone calls and threats into
Maricopa County Arizona right to say
that he would lead a mass shooting of
poll workers if the election didn't go
his way
just four instances the Justice
Department's task force is 9-0 against
these people those are pretty amazing
Hall of Fame statistics for justice
they've already brought 14 total cases
they've gotten nine convictions and
sentencing in in the other five are in
the works
so note to those that are out there you
have a First Amendment right to object
if you don't like the results of an
election or you don't like a candidate
of choice take to the streets you can
get on the soapbox in the in the
marketplace of ideas social media
electronic or physically going on a
soapbox in front of your local crowded
corner or or Park
if you need a permit you might need a
permit look into that however what
you're not allowed to do is weaponize
that
and threaten family members of election
workers election workers secretaries of
State anyone that's involved with the
election process judges prosecutors and
the like you want to voice your opinion
that's fine you want a foment discontent
and lead a violent overthrown
Insurrection and murder people you've
crossed the line from Free Speech into
not-free criminal conduct
and that's who we're going to follow
here on legal AF and on these hot takes
just like this one I am glad I'll say it
out loud I am glad at this golden hour
to be in a country where our department
of justice is led by people of integrity
and worth and value
and adults like Merrick Garland
appointed by Joe Biden and he Merrick
Garland turned around and hired Lisa
Monaco to be his right hand and is
number two and she's leading the task
force and the task force isn't just
sitting around looking at their budget
and twiddling their thumbs they're going
out and investigating and Prosecuting
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about just in the amount of time that
this that this group's been around this
task force has been around right which
is now just two years
they've already rooted out and nabbed
nine people and got them convicted with
another five left over that's 14 people
that that's 14 people who could have
been murderers and mass murderers of
election officials and frankly election
workers are are supposed to be allowed
to have a dignified environment to go
about their day to protect our democracy
they're doing their part and the fact
that some
whatever sitting in another state or in
their own State decide they're going to
terrorize election officials to dox them
like they did with uh Shea moss and Ruby
Freeman in Georgia
and post their uh their uh financial
information political information and
home and uh business addresses online
for people to attack them has
repercussions
I am sure the Department of Justice
working with Georgia's Bureau of
Investigation are investigating who is
doxing which groups are doxing the
uh uh regular Grand jurors in Georgia
who voted to indict Donald Trump right
those 23 people with their names because
you can't keep that Anonymous in Georgia
out there in the public
those are the things that a democracy
founded on Justice In fairness equality
and constitutional rights must have as
part of its Arsenal a strong robust
Department of Justice
that's what we're watching people from
around the world and in this country
who regularly watch legal AF on Midas
Touch Network that I co-anchor on
Wednesdays and Saturdays the podcast
hopefully the podcast of choice for Law
and politics and watch Hot takes like
this one
sometimes come away because they see it
not in the aggregate but they see it as
these individual bursts of information
and Analysis and then maybe they move on
with their own lives but I'm here to
tell you that if you bring the plane up
30 000 feet and look back down what you
were watching is a proper democracy with
a justice system and uh that is it is
functioning right it's the last firewall
of democracy for me is the justice
system it is the first responder for
democracy even more so than even the
election workers although they play a
valuable role
because Donald Trump thought he and the
others 18 co-defendants in Georgia three
or four down to Mar-A-Lago and others
that are unindicted co-conspirators and
all of the thousands that storm the
capital and try to uh burn the Cradle of
democracy and hang elected officials
they all thought they could get away
with it
they were so Brazen they just did it in
public they didn't even try to cover
their tracks They didn't even try to
clean up their fingerprints
the opposite they posted their
fingerprints and their faces and their
voices and their text and their speech
and everything else on social media and
recorded it and shared it among
themselves and wrote it in emails texts
and memos
which is now all evidence that's being
used against each of them in the
criminal cases because that's what the
Department of Justice does right this
isn't The Minority Report we don't have
the ability like the precogs to go in
the pre-crime unit and stop these things
before they happen Department of Justice
can't do that oh sure the FBI has people
under monitoring you know they're
monitoring people and they're doing
investigations and if they can avert a
crime Shore
but the Department of Justice usually
comes in after right it has to clean up
behind the elephants
and bring people to Justice they leave
it to the people to do whatever they're
going to do if the criminal laws our
constitution
and basic civility in the social
contract isn't going to stop somebody
from trying to steal democracy from
their neighbor and trample on it
then the Department of Justice has to
come in and investigate arrest indict
prosecute convict along with the help of
everybody else in the justice system
including jurors who are also doing
their civic duty and should also not be
the subject of of violent extremist
threats attacks and otherwise because
how are we going to get anybody to be an
election worker to be a juror a Grandeur
to go into the law to be a judge or a
prosecutor if our society doesn't
protect them through its justice
department FBI state and local
prosecutors and law enforcement it's
just it's a non-starter we have to do
this
right
somebody can sit in their whatever
basement or in their car and they might
think it's funny and they whip it up
with their friends and family
but these are serious threats against
Federal officers and federal workers and
there are repercussions that we're now
seeing played out by the election
threats task force led by Lisa Monaco
under Merrick Garland under Joe Biden
and now we can say it Joe Biden's
justice department going after bad
people who do bad things involving our
election at every level and this is a
justice department that can walk and
chew gum at the same time they can
investigate and prosecute over 2 000
people that storm the capital because uh
Donald Trump blew the whistle at the
same time they can bring multiple
investigations and indictments of Donald
Trump who now has his fourth indictment
right and looking at nine as seven total
trials in nine months while attorney
generals in various states do their jobs
to bring Donald Trump to Justice and
perhaps we'll get a fifth criminal
indictment before the year is over
right that's what we're looking at
if 2020 and 2021 was the year of the
coup 2022 and 2023 is the year of
Investigations
transparency and bringing people to
Justice
and that's where that's what we're
exploring here on hot takes just like
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