One of former President Donald Trump's trials made headlines for an especially concerning reason last week.
According to the Daily Caller, a man who threatened to murder Judge Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Trump's classified documents case, was indicted and now faces six charges related to the threats against Cannon.
In addition to threatening to assault and kill the judge, defendant Eric Rennert threatened to abduct the judge's family in St. Lucie, Florida.
While Judge Cannon wasn't specifically named as the target of the threat, she's the only district judge in the area where the threats were made.
Judge Cannon sparked anger from the left after she dismissed the classified documents case Trump was facing after making the determination that Jack Smith was improperly appointed as special counsel.
An Illinois man named Eric James Rennert has been charged with threatening to kidnap & murder a Florida federal judge & with threatening the judge’s family. The judge isn’t named but there are strong indications it’s Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed the Trump classified docs case. pic.twitter.com/niUOjDpi6C
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) October 5, 2024
Even prior to the case being thrown out, Cannon was accused by many anti-Trump people on the left of being too easy and lenient with the former president.
Of course, Smith has sought to appeal the decision that led to the case being thrown out, though it's still undetermined whether or not he'll have any luck doing so.
The Daily Caller noted:
Rennert allegedly acted with “the intent to communicate a true threat of violence and with recklessness as to whether the communication would be viewed as a true threat of violence,” according to the indictment. The indictment also states that Rennert made the alleged threats starting in May 2024, and later made more threats in July 2024.
Many across social media assumed, based on the left's nasty rhetoric concerning Judge Cannon, that the defendant is also an anti-Trump leftist. It wasn't clear what the defendant's political leanings are, but probably not difficult to guess.
"More radicalized leftist violence," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, sarcastically, "So much love and tolerance, I can just feel it."
"These insane woke liberals belong in gitmo," another person wrote on X.
Obviously, the rhetoric coming from the anti-Trump left in the media is having a serious and potentially deadly outcome on a far-too-regular basis. It needs to stop.
