‘Kill Judges, Behead Judges’: Pro-Trump Forums Flooded with ‘Disgusting’ Death Threats Against Colorado Judges

MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing reported Thursday on the “disgusting flood of death threats” made against the four judges on Colorado’s Supreme Court that banned Donald Trump from the ballot in the state

“Now to that disgusting flood of death threats unleashed on members of the Colorado Supreme Court, many of them on pro-Trump forums. It comes after the court’s decision to strip the former president’s name from the state ballot. One user wrote, ‘Kill judges, behead judges. Roundhouse kick a judge into the concrete,’” Jansing began, reading from an NBC News report, she continued:

Another said, “This ends when we kill these F-ers.” particularly disturbing some posts, including the judges, phone numbers, and office addresses. But with new word into NBC News that Trump is expected to appeal the decision sometime after Christmas, the focus shifts to the Supreme Court, where justices may be forced to step more directly into the political arena than at any time since Bush v. Gore.

In a country even more bitterly divided now than it was then, and it comes at a particularly fraught time for the court itself, struggling against accusations that on issues from abortion to affirmative action, it’s guided more by politics than the law.

Jansing then brought in NBC’s Ryan Reilly, who wrote the NBC report, to further discuss the threats facing the judges.

“Yeah, it’s almost to be expected at this point, right?” Reilly began, adding:

Because every time that Donald Trump has faced a legal setback, we’ve seen this pattern and where these the threats really come in. We saw physical attacks even after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago. We saw actual physical attack on an FBI field office. We’ve seen time and time again threats against against individuals who are investigating January 6th rioters, for example. And when Trump was indicted and then when Trump was indicted again, this flood of threats really come in. And what it ends up happening is we’re in a scenario where these justices who are deciding these issues have that in the back of their mind.

In fact, the ruling itself sort of spoke to this, that they had to make they felt that they had to make this decision regardless of sort of the other factors that could be weighing on their mind. Right. The threats that you might see, because they probably knew going into this what they are going to face because it’s happened time and time again.

Watch the full clip above via MSNBC.