«People have been killed because of the ideology and rhetoric and inciting of Donald Trump,» Frank Figliuzzi said.
A retired FBI official predicts right-wing violence will get «uglier» as supporters of Donald Trump issue threats against the prosecutor and grand jury that indicted the former president in Georgia, as well as the judge overseeing one of his federal cases.
Frank Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the bureau, issued a dire warning while on a Wednesday evening MSNBC segment shortly after the outlet and NBC reported that Trump supporters had posted death threats and shared the addresses of Fulton County grand jury members online.
The jurors’ names were included in the indictment, which charged Trump with 13 felony counts stemming from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ years-long investigation. The probe centered on Trump and his allies over their alleged attempt to reverse the 2020 presidential election outcome in Georgia. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and called the indictment, his fourth this year, «fake» and part of a political «witch hunt.»
Figliuzzi told Wallace that when he was looking across «extremist» websites on Wednesday before going on the show, he said he saw «vile, racist attacks on Fani Willis and others.»
Figliuzzi, who has been a vocal critic of Trump, said the attacks on Willis and the grand jury are just one example of many that foreshadow a spike in right-wing violence.
