A Texas woman and Donald Trump supporter has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing a criminal case against the former president, as well as a member of Congress.
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, allegedly called the federal courthouse in Washington on Aug. 5 and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, court records show.
“Hey you stupid slave nigger,” she began the message, which she left outside the judges’ chamber at 7:50 p.m., according to Department of Homeland Security officials.
Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threat calls, according to an indictment.
During the phone call, Shry told the judge, who oversees the federal election interference conspiracy against Trump, “You’re in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said.
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, allegedly called the federal courthouse in Washington on Aug. 5 and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, court records show
During the phone call, Shry told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversees the election conspiracy against Trump, “You’re in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has charged Trump with alleged crimes to obstruct the 2020 election results and also for his mishandling of classified documents. Trump is also being charged in New York over alleged hush money payments.
This week, the former president was also charged in Georgia over his alleged role, along with 18 co-defendants, in overturning the state’s 2020 presidential election.
Smith has called for the trial of federal election interference charges to begin in July.
Prosecutors allege Shry also told Chutkan in the message, “If Trump isn’t elected in 2024, we’re coming to kill you, so be careful.”
She also threatened to kill U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat running for mayor of Houston, according to court documents.
In addition, she set her sights on “all Democrats in Washington DC and all people in the LGBTQ community.”
“You will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, everything,” she added.
When questioned by DHS agents, Shry claimed she had no plans to go to Washington, but said if Lee came to Alvin, “we should be concerned.”
A judge earlier this week ordered Shry to be jailed.
On Monday, she was held without bond and charged with communicating a threat to injure another person across state lines, according to WUSA.
Shry has been charged four times in the past year on similar charges and has been jailed 30 times.
Prosecutors allege Shry also said, ‘If Trump isn’t elected in 2024, we’re coming to kill you, so be careful, b***h’
Shry also allegedly threatened Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
She had been released on bail on July 11 for felony threats, leading her to fear imminent serious bodily harm when she threatened Chutkan.
Court records show Shry is being represented by the Houston public defender’s office, which did not immediately return a message asking for comment on Wednesday. Shry will appear at a full bond hearing on Sept. 13.
Trump has publicly attacked Chutkan, a former assistant attorney nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, calling her “very partisan” and “ERY BIASED & DISFAIR!” for her previous comments in a separate case overseeing the sentencing of one of the defendants charged during the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.
Chutkan imposed a protective order in the case during a hearing on Friday, limiting the evidence the former president and his legal team are allowed to disclose by prosecutors.
She warned Trump’s lawyers that his defense should take place in court and “not on the internet.”
Chutkan also warned the former president’s lawyers that he could get a faster trial if he continues to make “inflammatory” statements that could affect the jury.
In a stern message, she said she would not let the process over allegations that he undermined the 2020 election turn into “a carnival atmosphere of uncontrolled publicity and process by the media.”