Fulton County Sheriff’s officers in front of the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sept. 6, 2023.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is responding to violent threats made against officials in Fulton County, Georgia, the agency said in an announcement Thursday.
The FBI said it’s working with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office but declined to debate details of ongoing investigations.
“Every potential threat delivered to our attention is taken seriously,” the FBI said in an announcement. “Individuals found answerable for making threats in violation of state and/or federal laws will likely be prosecuted.”
Former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants were indicted in Fulton County in August for a litany of alleged crimes related to their efforts to overturn Georgia’s ends in the 2020 presidential election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who’s prosecuting Trump, said in late July that she had received racist threats ahead of her decision to bring charges against the previous president.
Trump supporters last month also posted the names and addresses of members of the grand jury that voted to indict the previous president on a fringe website that usually features violent rhetoric.
Under Georgia law, the names of grand jurors are published as a part of criminal indictments. State criminal trials in Georgia are also livestreamed online, in accordance with state transparency laws. It was unclear as of Thursday whether the videotaped trials of Trump and his codefendants would come with footage of individual jurors within the courtroom.
Prosecutors and FBI agents investigating President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, have also been subject to threats by individuals who consider law enforcement has not come down hard enough on the president’s son, NBC News reported this week.
Robert Hur, the special counsel tasked with investigating classified documents discovered at Biden’s home and his vice presidential center, has been supplied with an armed protective security detail.
Armed protective security details have also been provided to special counsel Jack Smith and federal judges presiding over Smith’s two cases against Trump, in Florida and Washington, in accordance with government officials and congressional testimony.
