Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and members of her family have been receiving death threats from right-wing reactionary fringe malcontents because they are not happy that Arizona went for Joe Biden in the Presidential Election.
The same is the case with Brad Raffensperger, the Republican Georgia Secretary of State where Joe Biden has, in all likelihood, won that state as well.
So did election officials in Philadelphia.
Not to be outdone, the General Services Administrator in charge of officially launching the Presidential Transition Process, Emily Murphy, has apparently been receiving death threats because of her refusal to “ascertain” that Biden has won the election. Where the death threats are coming from has not been reported but it would not be surprising if some were from left-wing fringe elements that want to take matters into their own hands.
In the cases of Hobbs and Raffensperger, these lunatic right-wing elements are being encouraged by the likes of Kelli Ward, Andy Biggs, and Paul Gosar in Arizona and Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue, and Lindsey Graham in Georgia.
Donald Trump has enabled all these dangerous fantasies among the extremists on both sides with his deranged tweets and comments that have no basis in reality.
To their credit, none of these public servants have buckled to these intimidating-black shirts tactics.
Katie Hobbs issued a letter today (November 18, 2020) on social media that said:
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs released this statement in response to ongoing and escalating threats of violence directed at her family and her office. pic.twitter.com/SzsRxzvOl1
— Secretary Katie Hobbs (@SecretaryHobbs) November 18, 2020
Donald Trump or anyone that knowingly enabled this animalistic anarchical behavior should be criminally held to account if anything happens to any of these elected officials.
There was an election.
Joe Biden won by close to six million votes (the numbers are still rising) and 306 Electoral Votes.
To Mr. Trump and the Trump Zone-Fox Island-Disinfowar cultists and sycophants:
Get over it, grow up, and start acting like law-abiding human beings.
To any left-wing fringe elements that think they are helping the Biden/Harris Team with threats on Emily Murphy:
You are not. You need to go home, switch to decaf, and let the sane adults handle the situation.
This is a Republic and Democracy.
Death Threats from Fringe Malcontents on both sides of the political spectrum have no place in the United States and the Democratic Process.
In 1995 G. Gordon Liddy said on air, if the feds come after you “go for a headshot” because they’d be wearing body armor.
The right wing media has spent decades telling people to be ready to murder their fellow Americans if they don’t get their way politically.
American politics is supposed to be a contest of ideas, Republicans have worked their wrinkly white asses off to make it bloodsport.
And as some of the Lincoln Project folks have somewhat disingenuously admitted lately, (oh, we never knew!) it’s not the fringe of the GOP anymore, it’s the core.
The next few years are going to be better than the last four, but they’re still going to suck, because Trumpism is not going anywhere.
“Both sides” is pretty irrational thinking considering one side (gop) wants to kill the other, Dems. If a dem stands up to disagree vehemently suddenly they’re just as bad? C’mon.
Well, putting aside the “both sides” youre inferring (you merely ‘suppose’ that it is left wing radicals making the threats against Emily Murphy) that Daily Mail articly is remarkably disingenuous about her actions and motivations. No she is NOT some hapless ‘just want to follow the law’ concienctious civil servant.
There IS NO QUESTION that Biden has won the election; this is not remotely like 2000 where there was an actual question as to whether Bush or Gore had won Florida. Biden has won, and won decisively. If it were at all close the GOP wouldn’t be engaging in outrageous tactics like demanding that vast numbers of votes be thrown out or presenting court cases that simply demand that trump be declared the winner, votes be damned (which is what they’re doing in Nevada)
Trump and everyone he’s appointed are engaged in an effort to overturn the election in any way possible, and failing that are openly and consciously sabotaging the incoming Administration.
Exactly BDR, for all we know the death threats against Emily Murphy are coming from the right if she stops refusing and does go ahead and sign the letter.