FBI investigating violent threats against officials in Fulton County, Georgia

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is responding to violent threats made against officials in Fulton County, Georgia, the company mentioned in a press release Thursday.

The FBI mentioned it’s working with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, however declined to debate particulars of ongoing investigations.

“Each and each potential risk delivered to our consideration is taken severely,” the FBI mentioned in a press release. “Individuals discovered chargeable for making threats in violation of state and/or federal legal guidelines will likely be prosecuted.”

Former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants had been indicted in Fulton County in August for a litany of alleged crimes associated to their efforts to overturn the outcomes of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who’s prosecuting Trump, mentioned in late July that she had acquired racist threats forward of her choice to convey costs against the previous president.

Trump supporters final month additionally posted the names and addresses of members of the grand jury that voted to indict the previous president on a fringe web site that always options violent rhetoric.

Under Georgia legislation, the names of grand jurors are printed as a part of prison indictments. State prison trials in Georgia are additionally livestreamed on-line, in accordance with state transparency legal guidelines. It was unclear as of Thursday whether or not the videotaped trials of Trump and his codefendants would come with footage of particular person jurors in the courtroom or not.

Prosecutors and FBI brokers investigating President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, have additionally been topic to threats by individuals who consider legislation enforcement has not come down laborious sufficient on the president’s son, NBC News reported this week.

Robert Hur, the Special Counsel tasked with investigating categorized paperwork found at Biden’s house and his vice presidential middle, has been supplied with an armed protecting safety element.

The identical particulars have been supplied to Special Counsel Jack Smith and federal judges presiding over Smith’s two circumstances against Trump, in Florida and Washington, in accordance with authorities officials and congressional testimony.