Brittan J. Atkinson was charged by Fed prosecutors in MI for a threatening email he sent to the WB's attorney, saying "All traitors must die miserable deaths...We will hunt you down and bleed you out like the pigs you are.."
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politico.com/news/2020/02/2…
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politico.com/news/2020/02/2…
2-"The attorney, Mark Zaid, confirmed to POLITICO that he received the email the day after Trump held up Zaid’s photo and read some of Zaid’s tweets during a rally..“All traitors must die miserable deaths,” reads the email to Zaid that was sent on November 7.
3-“Those that represent traitors shall meet the same fate. We will hunt you down and bleed you out like the pigs you are. We have nothing but time, and you are running out of it. Keep looking over your shoulder. We know who you are, where you live, and who you associate with.
4-"We are all strangers in a crowd to you.” The indictment follows months of rhetorical salvos by the president and his allies against the whistleblower, whose purported identity has been posted on social media and even read aloud in the Senate chamber despite federal laws that
5-"allow whistleblowers to remain anonymous in order to encourage them to report wrongdoing..Trump has tweeted about the whistleblower more than five dozen times since September, accusing the person of being part of the “deep state” and alleging that he gave the Intelligence
6-"Community inspector general false information. Nothing in the whistleblower’s original complaint, however, has proven inaccurate..To Zaid’s knowledge, the indictment is the first time an individual has been charged with making death threats against him, he said.
7-"But it’s far from the first threatening email he and his legal partner Bradley Moss have received since taking on the whistleblower as a client..." ~politico
