In the last few weeks, we have seen a disturbing uptick of reported threats against public figures, grand jurors, and judges. One of the most disturbing and disgraceful are threats against Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who will be presiding in the trial of former president Donald Trump. Abigail Jo Shry, 43, of Alvin, Tex., allegedly left an Aug. 5 voice mail at Chutkan’s chambers in which she called her a racial slur and threatened her, saying, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, b—-.” That same week, there was also a sentencing in a prior case where the threat led to an attempt on the life of Trump. Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 56, has been sentenced to 262 months or roughly 22 years for mailing ricin to Trump. What makes her case even more striking is the defense raised by her lawyer.
Ferrier is a dual citizen of Canada and France. She pleaded guilty to sending a letter containing ricin in 2020 to then-President Trump and others.
In the letter, Ferrier referred to Trump as “The Ugly Tyrant Clown” and added that “[i]f it doesn’t work, I’ll find better recipe for another poison, or I might use my gun when I’ll be able to come. Enjoy! FREE REBEL SPIRIT.”
The threat of the gun became even more chilling when Ferrier was arrested after she tried to drive across the U.S.-Canada border at the Peace Bridge Border Crossing in Buffalo, New York. She had a gun, a knife, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Ferrier apparently made the ricin in her home in Quebec. When she was arrested later for refusing to leave a park after it closed, police found eight similar letters sent to law enforcement officials in charge of the Texas jail where she was held. In one letter, she instructed Trump to “[g]ive up and remove [his] application for this election.”
She was also active on social media with one posting on X asking for someone to “please shoot [T]rump in the face.”
In court, Ferrier insisted that she considers herself a “peaceful and genuinely kind person” but admitted she gets angry about problems like unfairness, abuses of power and “stupid rules.” She insisted that she is an “activist” rather than a “terrorist” who wants “to find peaceful means to achieve my goals.” That hardly jibes with the ricin and traveling arsenal.
In court, Ferrier’s defense attorney Eugene Ohm offered a curious defense that his client is “inordinately intelligent” and earned a master’s degree in engineering while raising two children as a single parent.
The homicidal-but-smart defense did not work.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich handed down the 262-month sentence.
How did the greatest nation on earth wind up with Holy Joe as President?
verbally threaten Biden, get shot dead. Try to poison president trump, get detained.
the lawyer should write comedy. this person is just your average democrat…. and must have been artificially inseminated. very sad what the children must have gone through.
There are violent nuts on all sides, unfortunately.
Yes. You forgot to add there are also different orders of magnitude.
Any examples on the opposite aside similar to the Black Lives Matter/Black Panthers murderer that murdered five Dallas police officers from ambush and wounded almost a dozen others?
How about a similar example of the Bernie Sanders acolyte/campaign worker that attempted the mass murder of GOP Congressman at a baseball practice?
Anything similar in scale and levels of violence to the 540+ instances of rioting, looting, pillaging and burning across the USA in 2020? In different cities, with different participants in each of those riots?
Remember when context used to matter?
sorry, but you libs have the market cornered on nuts
Democrats 2024, Michelle/Kamala.
> with one posting on X
Revisionism hampers the flow of the historical timeline.
Weiner / Holder
Sounds like a dishonest lawyer using a defense he knows is legally baseless. Defrauding the govt, conspiracy against the govt. Rico would would apply
URGENT BREAKING NON-NEWS
Bill Clinton denied he knew a million Africans were being murdered. He lied. He knew all about it. Ssssh. Don’t breathe a word. We are pursuing Trump, remember.
Over and out
She’s so darn intelligent that she she tried to drive across the U.S.-Canada border with a gun, a knife, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Turns out she was brilliant enough to install a Romulan Cloaking Device in her 2018 Toyota Camry to sneak across the Canadian border — or as she calls it, “The Neutral Zone” — but too stupid to realize that Star Trek was fiction.
Congratulations Spain. Maybe they’ll be invited to the Whitehouse.
Hey Folks, Robert L Peters here, or Robin Ware, or JRB Ware, please send me all evidence that Trump misbehaved, and I’ll be sure to cc it to my lawyer, Gunter Hiden and we’ll use it to nail that creep. S’awright? S’awright!
How’s that Lake Tahoe vacation going?
Scandals? What scandals?
You and Hunter enjoy yet another well deserved vacation, sir!
Love, the Fake News media that kisses yo a$$.
How intelligent does one need to be to use his own initials in a fake name? It’s a head scratcher.
Ah, a reminder of Jimenez, only a few of us old enough
Not Jimenez — Senor Wences:
OT but related to Canada,
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said they are considering a “game plan,” “if the United States “takes a far-right, authoritarian shift.”
In short, if anyone but Biden is elected in 2024, then it is “a far-right, authoritarian shift.”
So, what if Biden, sensing he is going to lose, and takes a far-left authoritarian shift?
And would this be an indicator if the situation in the US were to devolve into Civil War 2.0, that Canada would intervene on the far-left wing authoritarian side?
Canada on strike!
Good one, eh! I especially enjoyed the royal Canadian wedding and worldwide privacy tour 😀
Both classics!
That’s very funny. I notice the map at the end seems ti include a big chunk of Washington State as populated with “striking Canadians.” That could actually explain allot.
Well, Upstate, they can just bring it. If Ottawa loses, we get the Canadian interior all the way from the Yukon to the St. Laurence Seaway. It might not take a lot of persuading to bring over the provinces.