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Behind the Aegis

(55,695 posts)
Thu Aug 11, 2022, 03:36 PM Aug 2022

The judge who signed the FBI's Mar-a-Lago warrant is facing violent antisemitic threats

Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Tuesday, has been hit with a wave of antisemitic threats online.

The outburst has appeared on right-wing social media platforms and message boards, where users have published the judge’s name, address and personal information. Threats have been directed at his children and supposed family members as well.

Reinhart, who appears to be a member of the board of Temple Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens, has been a magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2018.

Calls for violence have accompanied antisemitic slurs and conspiracy theories, many referencing how Reinhart represented former employees of Jeffrey Epstein during a case involving the late convicted sex trafficker in 2008. Prior to the Epstein case, Reinhart worked as a federal prosecutor and then in a private practice until 2018.

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The judge who signed the FBI's Mar-a-Lago warrant is facing violent antisemitic threats (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Aug 2022 OP
Sigh... Ohio Joe Aug 2022 #1
Lock. Them. Up. SheltieLover Aug 2022 #2
Exactly!!! Round them up and lock them up. I'm so damn fed up with these ignoramuses. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2022 #4
Ignoramus et ignorabimus. Kid Berwyn Aug 2022 #10
Every time something is done, in following the law, etc., all of the thugs and anti- SWBTATTReg Aug 2022 #3
IMO they think Trump has given them permission to do whatever they damn well please RKP5637 Aug 2022 #5
I think you're absolutely right. My fear is that innocents will get hurt. SWBTATTReg Aug 2022 #6
Same here ... these idiots are toxic and dangerous. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2022 #8
KnR Hekate Aug 2022 #7
His synagogue had to shut down because of the threats. JoanofArgh Aug 2022 #9
This only highlights the Neo-Nazi core of the MAGA base of the neo-GOP n/t AntiFascist Aug 2022 #11
And yet the right was convinced that we would try to shut down church services after Roe Docreed2003 Aug 2022 #12
They best beware ... Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2022 #13
No surprise 😿 Meowmee Aug 2022 #14

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
4. Exactly!!! Round them up and lock them up. I'm so damn fed up with these ignoramuses. n/t
Thu Aug 11, 2022, 03:50 PM
Aug 2022

SWBTATTReg

(25,818 posts)
3. Every time something is done, in following the law, etc., all of the thugs and anti-
Thu Aug 11, 2022, 03:46 PM
Aug 2022

democratic idiots come out of the woodwork and show everybody in America just how toxic they truly are, and that they threaten Americans everywhere w/ their rhetoric, their hate, and everything else that these thugs are known for.

.they freaked out about a lawful executed search warrant;
.threatened the FBI and DOJ without knowing any of the particulars of the executed search warrant;
.threatened other FBI offices in other locations (nail gun), etc.;
.threatened to cut the DOJ's budget down to zero (some of the other side's legislators threatened this, despicable);
.here, in this article, they're threatening the judge who signed the search warrant;

And I'm sure more negative stuff will continue to happen. When stuff like this happens, totally legal, the crazies all seem to come out of the woodwork or underneath the rocks.

In a way, as long as no one gets hurt, this is a good thing, for these people will be caught, prosecuted, and if guilty, fined and/or some jail time, depending upon their threats.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
5. IMO they think Trump has given them permission to do whatever they damn well please
Thu Aug 11, 2022, 03:54 PM
Aug 2022

in support of their idiotic cult leader. They are so toxic.

Docreed2003

(18,669 posts)
12. And yet the right was convinced that we would try to shut down church services after Roe
Thu Aug 11, 2022, 05:04 PM
Aug 2022

It's amazing to me the projection of these bigots.

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,631 posts)
13. They best beware ...
Thu Aug 11, 2022, 05:56 PM
Aug 2022


(Not making light of the threats; just a bit of comic relief from the continuous tension by the shit-slingers)
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