An Alabama man pleaded guilty to charges related to threatening Fani Willis over the prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
In federal court on Tuesday, Arthur Ray Hanson II pleaded guilty and told the judge he did not intend to threaten the officials with the phone calls,The prosecutor in the case, assistant U.S. Attorney Bret Hobson, said he would seek leniency for the defendant because of his admission to his actions, according to the outlet.
Hanson had made threats in voicemails to both officials on Aug. 6, 2023, just over a week before Trump was indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, on charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.of my president, Donald Trump, and it’s going to be OK, you’re going to find out that after you take that mugshot, some bad s***’s probably going to happen to you,” Hanson said in a voicemail to Labat.
“When you charge Trump on that fourth indictment, anytime you’re alone, be looking over your shoulder,” Hanson said in the voicemail to Willis. “What you put out there, b****, comes back at you 10 times harder, and don’t ever forget it.”Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges Willis levied against him, but the timeline for a trial is unclear due to the appeal of a state judge’s decision not to disqualify Willis over an alleged relationship she had with one of the prosecutors on her team.
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